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vulnerability

Arch Linux: Cross-site scripting (CVE-2015-9251)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 18, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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