Vue Template Compiler version 2.5.8 is a minor update to the core template compilation tool for Vue 2.0, succeeding version 2.5.7. Both versions serve the same fundamental purpose: transforming Vue templates into render functions that the Vue runtime can utilize to efficiently update the DOM. Examining the provided metadata reveals nearly identical characteristics between the two releases. Both share the same dependencies, he for HTML entity encoding/decoding and de-indent for removing unnecessary indentation from template strings. They are licensed under the MIT license and maintained by Evan You. Even the project repository remains unchanged.
The most noticeable difference lies in their release dates. Version 2.5.8 was published on November 21, 2017, a single day after version 2.5.7, which was released on November 20, 2017. This suggests that version 2.5.8 likely contains bug fixes or very minor improvements made shortly after the release of 2.5.7.
For developers using the Vue Template Compiler, this signifies a need to update to the latest patch version (2.5.8), in order to leverage of the quick bug fixes, and overall to ensure stability and consistency across the vue environment. While the core features will largely remain the same from version 2.5.7 to 2.5.8, updating such underlying tools can boost application performance, as well as introduce small improvements when compiling more complex templates.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.5.8 of the package
vue-template-compiler vulnerable to client-side Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A vulnerability has been discovered in vue-template-compiler, that allows an attacker to perform XSS via prototype pollution. The attacker could change the prototype chain of some properties such as Object.prototype.staticClass or Object.prototype.staticStyle to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. Vue 2 has reached End-of-Life. This vulnerability has been patched in Vue 3.
