CVE-2020-7656

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in nuget/jQuery

Identifiers

GHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw, CVE-2020-7656

Package Slug

nuget/jQuery

Vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Description

jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "<script>" HTML tags that contain a whitespace character, i.e: "</script >", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.

Affected Versions

All versions before 1.9.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.9.0 or above.

Last Modified

2023-05-31

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