{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7656","details":"jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove \"\u003cscript\u003e\" HTML tags that contain a whitespace character, i.e: \"\u003c/script \u003e\", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.","modified":"2025-09-08T16:45:59Z","published":"2020-05-19T21:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2020-7656"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7656"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7656"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"jquery","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/jquery@1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1","1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1","binary_name":"libjs-jquery"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7656.json"}},{"package":{"name":"jquery","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/jquery@1.11.3+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.7.2+dfsg-3ubuntu2","1.11.3+dfsg-4","1.11.3+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1~esm1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.11.3+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1~esm1","binary_name":"libjs-jquery"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7656.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}