Vulnerability Details CVE-2012-6708
jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.014
EPSS Ranking 79.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.1
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
Products affected by CVE-2012-6708
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:-
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:1.8.3