Cross-Site Scripting in jquery (GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgw)

Description

Affected versions of jquery are vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This occurs because the main jquery function uses a regular expression to differentiate between HTML and selectors, but does not properly anchor the regular expression.

Recommendation

Update the jquery package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 1.8.3
• Patched version(s): 1.9.0

References

• GHSA-2pqj-h3vj-pqgw
• bugs.jquery.com
• help.ecostruxureit.com
• lists.apache.org
• snyk.io
• lists.opensuse.org
• packetstormsecurity.com
• security.snyk.io
• research.insecurelabs.org
• web.archive.org
• CVE-2012-6708
• CWE-64
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Denial of Service in jquery - CVE-2016-10707
• Prototype Pollution in lodash (GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574) - CVE-2018-16487
• jquery-validation vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting - CVE-2025-3573
• @mozilla/readability Denial of Service through Regex - CVE-2025-2792

Tags:

npm

jquery