Medium 6.9Known exploited (CISA KEV)HealthcarePublished Apr 28, 2020

CVE-2020-11023Potential XSS vulnerability in jQuery

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CISA lists it as known exploited since Jan 23, 2025; federal agencies had to remediate by Feb 13, 2025. Treat that date as your deadline.

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In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.0.3 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML containing <option> elements from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing it - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.

CVSS: 6.9 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Added to CISA KEV Jan 23, 2025; federal remediation due Feb 13, 2025Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 84.89% (percentile 100)
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

jquery jQuery jquery:jquery (from the name)	from 1.0.3, < 3.5.0	CNA record
jquery jquery jquery:jquery	from 1.0.3 before 3.5.0	NVD
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux	9.0	NVD
fedoraproject fedora fedoraproject:fedora	31; 32; 33	NVD
drupal drupal drupal:drupal	from 7.0 before 7.70; from 8.7.0 before 8.7.14; from 8.8.0 before 8.8.6	NVD
oracle application_express oracle:application_express	before 20.2	NVD
oracle application_testing_suite oracle:application_testing_suite	13.3.0.1	NVD
oracle banking_enterprise_collections oracle:banking_enterprise_collections	from 2.7.0 through 2.8.0	NVD
oracle banking_platform oracle:banking_platform	from 2.4.0 through 2.10.0	NVD
oracle blockchain_platform oracle:blockchain_platform	before 21.1.2; 21.1.2	NVD
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References

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4693	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QPN2L2XVQGUA2V5HNQJWHK3APSK3VN7K/	vendor-advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/	release-notes, vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200511-0006/
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-002
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcq-cgw6-v4j6	third-party-advisory
https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released	release-notes, vendor-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00067.html	vendor-advisory, broken-link
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-03	vendor-advisory
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