Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6708

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-01-18 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 21:36:02

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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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