CVE-2012-6708

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 18, 2018
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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