MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-4969

Jquery vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
19.2%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Jquery
Affected product
Jquery
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2013-03-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 19.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-4969.
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