CVE-2011-4969
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jQuery before 1.6.3, when using location.hash to select elements, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted tag.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jQuery before 1.6.3, when using location.hash to select elements, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted tag.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 19.19% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- jquery/jquery
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 19.2% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://blog.jquery.com/2011/09/01/jquery-1-6-3-released/
- http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2011/07/jquery-is-sink.html
- http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9521
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/31/3
- http://www.osvdb.org/80056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58458
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036620
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1722-1
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/db9e023e62c1ff5d8f21ed9868ab6878da2005e9Exploit, Patch
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05232730
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190416-0007/
- http://blog.jquery.com/2011/09/01/jquery-1-6-3-released/
- http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2011/07/jquery-is-sink.html
- http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9521
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/31/3
- http://www.osvdb.org/80056
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58458
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036620
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1722-1
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/db9e023e62c1ff5d8f21ed9868ab6878da2005e9Exploit, Patch
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05232730
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190416-0007/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.