ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2012-6708
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708
- Upstream
- Published
- 2018-01-18T23:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-09-05T06:17:52Z
- Severity
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- 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
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