CVE-2012-6708

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 products

Suse, Ubuntu, Jquery

Jquery

< 1.9.0

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.0

6.1 MEDIUM

EPSS

8.6% (95th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-79

NVD status

Modified

Published

2018-01-18