Description
jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.
Published: 2018-01-18
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-0684 jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgw Cross-Site Scripting in jquery
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7622-1 jQuery vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:36:02.207Z

Reserved: 2018-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-6708

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-18T23:29:00.213

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:46:43.460

Link: CVE-2012-6708

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-03-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-6708 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses