jQuery-UI vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in dialog closeText

Description

Affected versions of jquery-ui are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability when arbitrary user input is supplied as the value of the closeText parameter in the dialog function.

jQuery-UI is a library for manipulating UI elements via jQuery.

Version 1.11.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.12.0
• Patched version(s): 1.12.0

References

• GHSA-hpcf-8vf9-q4gj
• jqueryui.com
• lists.apache.org
• lists.fedoraproject.org
• security.netapp.com
• www.oracle.com
• rhn.redhat.com
• lists.debian.org
• www.drupal.org
• web.archive.org
• CVE-2016-7103
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6