CVE-2020-11022CWE-79

jQuery has a potential XSS vulnerability

Medium · published April 29, 2020

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High probability of exploitation

CVSS calls it medium at 6.9. It sits in the 99.9th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS v3.1

6.9

EPSS

99%

Percentile

99.9

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

In jQuery starting with 1.12.0 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing it - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS v3.1: 6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.99215 · 99.9th percentile
Weakness: CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published: 2020-04-29T00:00Z

EPSS history

Timeline

29 APR 00:00Z
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