CVE-2020-7656

Published: 19 May 2020

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.

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 6.1

Status

Notes

This is likely an intrusive, backwards-incompatible change that
may break existing software. We will not be fixing this issue
in stable Ubuntu releases.

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7656
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

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