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jQuery Vulnerability: CVE-2015-9251

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jQuery Vulnerability: CVE-2015-9251

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/18/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/06/2018
Modified
04/05/2023

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(s)

  • jquery-upgrade-3_0_0

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