Cross-site scripting in jQuery UI - CVE-2010-5312

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Cross-site scripting in jQuery UI - CVE-2010-5312

Published: November 30, -0001 / Updated: November 20, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU3374
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-5312
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.

An input validation error exists in jquery.ui.dialog.js in the Dialog widget in jQuery UI before 1.10.0 when processing title option. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security 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.


Affected software

jQuery UI
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Drupal
couchdb
drupal7

How to mitigate CVE-2010-5312

Update to version 1.10.0.

jQuery UI - update to 1.10.0
Drupal - update to 7.86
couchdb - update to 1.6.1-4.fc21
drupal7 - addressed in versions 7.92-1.el7, 7.92-1.fc35, 7.92-1.fc36, 7.92-1.fc37

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