ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708

ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708

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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.

CVSS 6.1 · Medium · Fix available

Published

2018-01-18T23:29:00.213Z

Updated

2026-10-23T17:17:54.867799965Z

Stack: system

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