Cross-site scripting in jQuery Mobile



Published: 2019-05-09
Risk Medium
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID N/A
CWE-ID CWE-79
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit Public exploit code for vulnerability #1 is available.
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		jQuery Mobile
Web applications / JS libraries

Vendor The jQuery Team

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting

EUVDB-ID: #VU18417

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: N/A

CWE-ID:

Exploit availability:

Description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied data in the Content-Type header of the XHR response when parsing the AJAX response as HTML. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

jQuery Mobile: 1.0.0 - 1.5.0 alpha.1

Fixed software versions

CPE2.3 External links

http://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERYMOBILE-174599


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?



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