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Fencer Intel
medium 4.3

CVE-2011-4969 json

jQuery vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

published 2013-03-08 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-579v-mp3v-rrw5 , EUVD-2022-2521

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.2%
EPSS 19.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jQuery before 1.6.3, when using location.hash to select elements, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted tag.

Patch / fix

  • npm jquery 1.6.3
  • nuget jQuery 1.6.3
  • rubygems jquery-rails 1.0.16
  • maven org.webjars.npm:jquery 1.6.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-4969 updated cvss 4.3

jquery: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via $(location.hash) and $(#<tag>)

  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 js-jquery js-jquery
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-22-097-01 updated cvss 4.7

Pepperl+Fuchs WirelessHART-Gateway

  • Pepperl+Fuchs WHA-GW-F2D2-0-AS- Z2-ETH 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9 Pepperl+Fuchs WHA-GW-F2D2-0-AS- Z2-ETH.EIP 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9
    affected: mitigation “Minimize network exposure for affected products and ensure they are not accessible via the Internet.” cert.vde.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

19.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/db9e023e62c1ff5d8f21ed9868ab6878da2005e9 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm jquery
<1.6.3
1.6.3
nuget jQuery
<1.6.3
1.6.3
rubygems jquery-rails
<1.0.16
1.0.16
maven org.webjars.npm:jquery
<1.6.3
1.6.3

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.