ADVISORIES
GEM
FRAMEWORK
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 6.1 (Medium)
CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)
PATCHED VERSIONS
- ~> 2.1.4
- >= 2.2.0
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. The result is that jquery may interpret HTML
as selectors when given certain inputs, allowing for client side code
execution.
Proof of Concept
$("#log").html( $("element[attribute=’<img src=\"x\" onerror=\"alert(1)\" />’]").html() );