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CISA Adds Five-Year-Old jQuery XSS Flaw to Exploited Vulnerabilities List
2025-01-24 05:39

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday placed a now-patched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The medium-severity vulnerability is CVE-2020-11023 (CVSS score: 6.1/6.9), a nearly five-year-old cross-site scripting (XSS) bug that could be


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https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/cisa-adds-five-year-old-jquery-xss-flaw.html

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2020-04-29 CVE-2020-11023 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in multiple products
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.
6.1

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Jquery 1 0 8 1 0 9