CVE-2012-6708

MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.90%

Cross-Site Scripting in jquery

Published: 9/1/2020Modified: 11/19/2025

Also known as:GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgwALPINE-CVE-2012-6708

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.

Affected packages (5)

Alpine/rubyfrom 0, < 2.5.6-r0
Maven/org.webjars.npm:jqueryfrom 0, < 1.9.0
npm/jqueryfrom 0, < 1.9.0
NuGet/jQueryfrom 0, < 1.9.0
RubyGems/jquery-railsfrom 0, < 2.2.0

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

Affected packages (5)

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