CVE-2012-6708

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6708
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-6708.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-6708
Aliases
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Published
2018-01-18T23:29:00Z
Modified
2024-11-21T01:46:43Z
Severity
  • 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
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Details

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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Affected packages