Potential XSS vulnerability in jQuery

GHSA-jpcq-cgw6-v4j6 · BIT-drupal-2020-11023 · CVE-2020-11023

Published Apr 29, 2020 · Modified Jul 8, 2026

Description

Impact

Passing HTML containing <option> elements from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing them - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code.

Patches

This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.

Workarounds

To workaround this issue without upgrading, use DOMPurify with its SAFE_FOR_JQUERY option to sanitize the HTML string before passing it to a jQuery method.

References

https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, search for a relevant issue in the jQuery repo. If you don't find an answer, open a new issue.

References

6.9 / 10

MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:H

Affected Packages

Maven/org.webjars.npm:jquery

Fix 3.5.0

Introduced 1.0.3

35 affected versions

1.11.01.11.11.11.31.12.11.12.21.12.31.12.41.7.21.7.31.8.21.8.31.9.12.1.02.1.12.1.1-rc12.1.1-rc22.1.32.1.42.2.02.2.1 +15 more

NuGet/jQuery

Fix 3.5.0

Introduced 1.0.3

58 affected versions

1.10.01.10.0.11.10.11.10.21.11.01.11.11.11.21.11.31.12.01.12.11.12.21.12.31.12.41.4.11.4.21.4.31.4.41.5.01.5.11.5.2 +38 more

Packagist/components/jquery

Fix 3.5.0

Introduced 1.0.3

31 affected versions

1.10.01.10.11.10.21.11.01.11.11.11.21.11.31.12.01.12.11.12.41.8.31.9.01.9.12.0.02.0.12.0.22.0.32.1.02.1.12.1.3 +11 more

RubyGems/jquery-rails

Fix 4.4.0

Introduced 0

74 affected versions

0.1.10.1.20.1.30.20.2.10.2.20.2.30.2.40.2.50.2.60.2.71.01.0.11.0.101.0.111.0.121.0.131.0.141.0.151.0.16 +54 more

npm/jquery

Fix 3.5.0

Introduced 1.0.3

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