CVE-2020-7656

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

jquery

CVSS v4.0 GitHub

5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

6.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile

Published

2020-05-19

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619
• ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2020-76560★ · 2020-12-08

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52141

Security advisories

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0001
• https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2021-07-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-Multiple-J…
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
• advisories/GHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry