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 The EJS team will then evaluate your report and will reply with the next steps in handling your report and may ask for additional information or guidance.
 
+## out of scope vulnerabilities
+If you give end-users unfettered access to the EJS render method, you are using EJS in an inherently un-secure way. Please do not report security issues that stem from doing that. EJS is effectively a JavaScript runtime. Its entire job is to execute JavaScript. If you run the EJS render method without checking the inputs yourself, you are responsible for the results.