CVE-2012-6708

jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks.
The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in
a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the
input was HTML by looking for the ‘<’ character anywhere in the string,
giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious
payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it
explicitly starts with the ‘<’ character, limiting exploitability only to
attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less
common.

Bugs

• <https://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11290&gt;

Notes