CVE-2020-11023

Publication date 29 April 2020

Last updated 8 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.0.3 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML containing <option> elements 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.

Read the notes from the security team

Why is this CVE high priority?

Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
drupal7	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation
jquery	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.3.1~dfsg-3ubuntu0.1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.2.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

priority bumped to high as it was listed in CISA KEV. was previously a low.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
jquery	Upstream: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/4647/commits/25c0a6e0523b3b2d501f4f7c66a3f351fa96ca32

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N