Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting jquery package, versions <1.12.0>=1.12.3 <3.0.0-beta1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:jquery:20150627
  • published27 Nov 2016
  • disclosed26 Jun 2015
  • creditEgor Homakov

Introduced: 26 Jun 2015

CVE-2015-9251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade jquery to version 1.12.0, 3.0.0-beta1 or higher.

Overview

jquery is a package that makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain ajax request is performed without the dataType option causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

Note: After being implemented in version 1.12.0, the fix of this vulnerability was reverted in 1.12.3, and then was only reintroduced in version 3.0.0-beta1. The fix was never released in any tag of the 2.x.x branch, as it was reverted out of the branch before being released.

Note: CVE-2017-16012 is a duplicate of CVE-2015-9251

Details

CVSS Scores

version 3.1