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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in jquery

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 22, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 25, 2023

Package

nuget jQuery (NuGet)

Affected versions

< 1.12.2
>= 1.12.3, < 3.0.0

Patched versions

1.12.2
3.0.0
npm jquery (npm)
< 1.12.2
>= 1.12.3, < 3.0.0
1.12.2
3.0.0
bundler jquery-rails (RubyGems)
< 4.2.0
4.2.0
maven org.webjars.npm:jquery (Maven)
< 1.12.2
>= 1.12.3, < 3.0.0
1.12.2
3.0.0

Description

Affected versions of jquery interpret text/javascript responses from cross-origin ajax requests, and automatically execute the contents in jQuery.globalEval, even when the ajax request doesn't contain the dataType option.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.0.0 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 18, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 22, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Sep 25, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-9251

GHSA ID

GHSA-rmxg-73gg-4p98

Source code

Credits

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