CVE-2020-7656 (GCVE-0-2020-7656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:33
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Cross-site Scripting
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a jquery Affected: All versions prior to version 1.9.0
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
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      "title": "jquery: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via \u003cscript\u003e HTML tags containing whitespaces",
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