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HistoryMay 26, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

jQuery < 1.9.0 XSS Vulnerability

2020-05-2600:00:00
Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG
plugins.openvas.org
127

5.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

51.7%

jQuery is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
via the load method.

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:jquery:jquery";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.143968");
  script_version("2023-07-14T05:06:08+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-14 05:06:08 +0000 (Fri, 14 Jul 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-05-26 01:48:46 +0000 (Tue, 26 May 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-05-28 13:15:00 +0000 (Thu, 28 May 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-7656");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("jQuery < 1.9.0 XSS Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_jquery_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("jquery/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"jQuery is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
  via the load method.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"jQuery allows cross-site scripting attacks via the load method.
  The load method fails to recognize and remove '<script>' HTML tags that contain a whitespace
  character, i.e: '</script >', which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"jQuery versions prior to 1.9.0.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.9.0 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "1.9.0")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.9.0", install_path: location);

  extra_reporting = get_kb_item("jquery/http/" + port + "/" + location + "/extra_reporting");
  if (extra_reporting)
    report += '\nDetection info (see OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.150658 for more info):\n' + extra_reporting;

  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);