GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-fj93-7wm4-8x2g Cross-Site Scripting in jquery-mobile
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- jquery-mobile
- Severity
- High
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2020-08-31
Affected packages
• npm jquery-mobile: all versions (no fix yet)
Description
All version of `jquery-mobile` are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting. The package checks for content in `location.hash` and if a URL is found it does an XmlHttpRequest (XHR) to the URL and renders the response with `innerHTML`. It fails to validate the `Content-Type` of the response, allowing attackers to include malicious payloads as part of query parameters that are reflected back to the user. A response such as `{"q":"","results":[]}` would be parsed as HTML and the JavaScript payload executed.
Recommendation
No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative package until a fix is made available.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/8640 web
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/8649 web
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/pull/8650 web
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/commit/b0d9cc758a48f13321750d7409fb7655dcdf2b50 web
- https://gist.github.com/jupenur/e5d0c6f9b58aa81860bf74e010cf1685 web
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile web
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERYMOBILE-174599 web
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/883 web