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SCA: security update for jquery-validation (GHSA-rrj2-ph5q-jxw2)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 425659

Description

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

 - Versions of the package jquery-validation before 1.20.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in
 the showLabel() function, which may take input from a user-controlled placeholder value. This value will
 populate a message via $.validator.messages in a user localizable dictionary. (CVE-2025-3573)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rrj2-ph5q-jxw2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 425659

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/15/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-3573

cwe: CWE-79