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SCA: security update for jQuery, jquery, jquery-rails, org.webjars.npm:jquery (GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409023

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2012-6708)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409023

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6708

BID: 102792