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SCA: security update for jQuery, jquery, jquery-rails, org.webjars.npm:jquery (GHSA-rmxg-73gg-4p98)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423409

Description

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

 - jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request
 is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.
 (CVE-2015-9251)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rmxg-73gg-4p98

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 423409

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

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-2015-9251

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: 1/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9251

BID: 105658

cwe: CWE-79