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CVE-2012-6708

6.1 mediumEPSS 8.6%

Medium (6.1) in jquery jquery. EPSS 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in jquery 1.9.0.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.1 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgwnpmjquery<1.9.01.9.0
GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgwMavenorg.webjars.npm:jquery<1.9.01.9.0
GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgwNuGetjQuery<1.9.01.9.0
GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgwRubyGemsjquery-rails<2.2.02.2.0

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