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JQuery < 3.5.0 XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182682

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Synopsis

The remote web server is affected by cross site scripting vulnerability.

Description

In JQuery version greater than or equal to 1.0.3 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML containing <option> elements 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. Initial CVE-2020-23064 mentioned in the advisory has been deprecated as duplicate and replaced with CVE-2020-11023.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to JQuery version 3.5.0 or later.

See Also

https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-565129

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 182682

File Name: jquery_3_5_0.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: remote

Published: 10/6/2023

Updated: 5/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11023

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: installed_sw/jquery

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11023

IAVB: 2023-B-0076