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SCA: security update for components/jquery, jQuery, jquery, jquery-rails, org.webjars.npm:jquery (GHSA-jpcq-cgw6-v4j6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422460

Description

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

 - 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. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.
 (CVE-2020-11023)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jpcq-cgw6-v4j6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422460

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

Percentile: 96.42

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11023

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 2/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11023

IAVB: 2020-B-0030

cwe: CWE-79