CVE-2020-11022
jQuery has a potential XSS vulnerability
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 99.2%
In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.2 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.
- Affected
- jquery · jQuery
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 6.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS v3.1 GITHUB
- 6.9 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - EPSS
- 99.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- Published
- 2020-04-29
- Updated
- 2026-04-13
Proof-of-concept exploits (6)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162159/jQuery-1.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- 0xAJ2K/CVE-2020-11022-CVE-2020-1102334★ · 2022-09-11
- AssassinUKG/XSSPlayground31★ · 2021-03-20
- LSP1025923/CVE0★ · 2025-09-14
- Snorlyd/https-nj.gov---CVE-2020-110221★ · 2022-05-23
- ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2020-110221★ · 2020-12-01
ExploitDB entries (1)
Exploit collections (1)
- jQuery >=1.0.3 <3.5.0 XSS (CVE-2020-11022-CVE-2020-11023).mdtzwlhack/Vulnerability
Security advisories
- https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released
- https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5
- jquery/jquery/commit/1d61fd9407e6fbe82fe55cb0b938307aa0791f77
- jquery/jquery/security/advisories/GHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00033.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-03
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200511-0006
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4693
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-002
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-10
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-11
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-02
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-10
- advisories/GHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html