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[![Known Vulnerabilities](https://snyk.io/test/npm/ejs/badge.svg?style=flat)](https://snyk.io/test/npm/ejs)
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+## Security
+
Security professionals, before reporting any security issues, please reference the
SECURITY.md
in this project, in particular, the following: "EJS is effectively a JavaScript runtime.