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CVE-2020-11023

JQuery Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

JQueryJQuery

Added to KEV catalog
23 January 2025
Federal remediation due date
13 February 2025
Weakness classification (CWE)
CWE-79

CISA Description

JQuery contains a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. When passing maliciously formed, untrusted input enclosed in HTML tags, JQuery's DOM manipulators can execute untrusted code in the context of the user's browser.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcq-cgw6-v4j6 ; https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11023

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