Description
Initializing a checkboxradio widget on an input enclosed within a label makes that parent label contents considered as the input label. If you call .checkboxradio( "refresh" ) on such a widget and the initial HTML contained encoded HTML entities, they will erroneously get decoded. This can lead to potentially executing JavaScript code.
Recommendation
Update the jquery-ui package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:
- Affected version(s): < 1.13.2
- Patched version(s): 1.13.2
References
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