jQuery has a potential XSS vulnerability

Description

In jQuery starting with 1.12.0 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML 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. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

99.2% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• jquery · jQuery

  • affected >= 1.12.0, < 3.5.0

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.webjars.npm:jqueryGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• NuGetjqueryGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• Packagistathlon1600/youtube-downloaderGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• Packagistcomponents/jqueryGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• Packagistmaximebf/debugbarGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• RubyGemsjquery-railsGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• npmjqueryGHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)

References (71)

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• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/1d61fd9407e6fbe82fe55cb0b938307aa0791f77 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
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• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-02 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-10 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/releases/tag/3.5.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/jquery-rails/CVE-2020-11022.yml (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0483ba0072783c2e1bfea613984bfb3c86e73ba8879d780dc1cc7d36@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r49ce4243b4738dd763caeb27fa8ad6afb426ae3e8c011ff00b8b1f48@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54565a8f025c7c4f305355fdfd75b68eca442eebdb5f31c2e7d977ae@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r564585d97bc069137e64f521e68ba490c7c9c5b342df5d73c49a0760@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r706cfbc098420f7113968cc377247ec3d1439bce42e679c11c609e2d@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8f70b0f65d6bedf316ecd899371fd89e65333bc988f6326d2956735c@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbb448222ba62c430e21e13f940be4cb5cfc373cd3bce56b48c0ffa67@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdf44341677cf7eec7e9aa96dcf3f37ed709544863d619cca8c36f133@%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re4ae96fa5c1a2fe71ccbb7b7ac1538bd0cb677be270a2bf6e2f8d108@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rede9cfaa756e050a3d83045008f84a62802fc68c17f2b4eabeaae5e4@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree3bd8ddb23df5fa4e372d11c226830ea3650056b1059f3965b3fce2@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00033.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCmailing-listx_transferred
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00040.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCmailing-listx_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AVKYXLWCLZBV2N7M46KYK4LVA5OXWPBY (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
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• FEDORA-2020-36d2db5f51 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200511-0006/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• [airflow-commits] 20200820 [GitHub] [airflow] breser opened a new issue #10429: jquery dependency needs to be updated to 3.5.0 or newer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• FEDORA-2020-fbb94073a1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• FEDORA-2020-0b32a59b54 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• FEDORA-2020-fe94df8c34 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20201105 [jira] [Created] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-dev] 20201105 [jira] [Created] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:1888 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20201129 [jira] [Commented] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20210209 [jira] [Commented] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20210209 [jira] [Comment Edited] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20210422 [jira] [Updated] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20210422 [jira] [Commented] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20210429 [jira] [Commented] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20210429 [jira] [Updated] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162159/jQuery-1.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• [flink-issues] 20211031 [jira] [Updated] (FLINK-20014) Resolve CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 in scala-compiler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2020-11022](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2020-11022.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-11022)

Record last updated 2 Nov 2026, 17:54 UTC.