jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove “<script>” HTML tags that contain a whitespace character, i.e: “</script >”, which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.
[
{
"vendor": "n/a",
"product": "jquery",
"versions": [
{
"version": "All versions prior to version 1.9.0",
"status": "affected"
}
]
}
]