Vulnerability

CVE-2020-7656

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CVSS Score 6.1 medium

CVSS Vector

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

CWE

CWE-79

References

https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2020052520
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2020-7656

[CVE-2020-7656] CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Description

jquery prior to 1.9.0 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.

See org.scala-lang/scala-compiler package information