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CVE-2020-7656
jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "<script>"…
Medium6.1EPSS 6.4%
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- snyk
Description
jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "<script>" HTML tags that contain a whitespace character, i.e: "</script >", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
- Cross-site Scripting
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
jquery
- affected All versions prior to version 1.9.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.webjars.npm:jqueryGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetjQueryGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsjquery-railsGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- npmjqueryGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2021-07-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-Multiple-J-Web-vulnerabilities-resolved-in-Junos-OS-21-2R1?language=en_US (opens in a new tab)x_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-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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