CVE-2012-6708

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.1
Exploit probability95. percentile8.6%
ProductJquery
PublishedJan 18, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • jquery jquery1.9.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
jquery jqueryv < 1.9.01.9.0

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