CVE-2012-6708

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2012-6708

To remediate CVE-2012-6708, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 2.5.6-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.9.0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.9.0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.9.0 or later
• —upgrade to 2.2.0 or later

Is CVE-2012-6708 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• from 0, < 2.5.6-r0
• from 0, < 1.9.0
• from 0, < 1.9.0
• from 0, < 1.9.0
• from 0, < 2.2.0

CVSS scores

References (23)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6708
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16011
• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2012-6708
• PATCHgithub.com/jquery/jquery
• WEB