GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet

GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9 jQuery UI vulnerable to XSS when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

MEDIUM Published 2022-07-18 Modified 2025-07-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2022-31160
Ecosystem
npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet
Packages
jquery-ui, org.webjars.npm:jquery-ui, jquery-ui-rails, jQuery.UI.Combined
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2022-07-18

Affected packages

• npm jquery-ui: < 1.13.2 → fixed in 1.13.2 • Maven org.webjars.npm:jquery-ui: < 1.13.2 → fixed in 1.13.2 • RubyGems jquery-ui-rails: < 8.0.0 → fixed in 8.0.0 • NuGet jQuery.UI.Combined: < 1.13.2 → fixed in 1.13.2

Description

Impact Initializing a checkboxradio widget on an input enclosed within a label makes that parent label contents considered as the input label. If you call `.checkboxradio( "refresh" )` on such a widget and the initial HTML contained encoded HTML entities, they will erroneously get decoded. This can lead to potentially executing JavaScript code. For example, starting with the following initial secure HTML: ```html &lt;img src=x onerror="alert(1)"&gt; ``` and calling: ```js $( "#test-input" ).checkboxradio(); $( "#test-input" ).checkboxradio( "refresh" ); ``` will turn the initial HTML into: ```html ``` and the alert will get executed. Patches The bug has been patched in jQuery UI 1.13.2. Workarounds To remediate the issue, if you can change the initial HTML, you can wrap all the non-input contents of the `label` in a `span`: ```html &lt;img src=x onerror="alert(1)"&gt; ``` References https://blog.jqueryui.com/2022/07/jquery-ui-1-13-2-released/ For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, search for a relevant issue in the jQuery UI repo. If you don't find an answer, open a new issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2022-31160 jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of jQuery. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References