CVE-2020-7656 Information

Description

jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove \script\ HTML tags that contain a whitespace character i.e: \/script \ which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0001/ https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1