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medium 6.1

CVE-2025-3573 json

jquery-validation vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

published last yr. modified 4mo ago also GHSA-rrj2-ph5q-jxw2 , EUVD-2025-10923

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Versions of the package jquery-validation before 1.20.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the showLabel() function, which may take input from a user-controlled placeholder value. This value will populate a message via $.validator.messages in a user localizable dictionary.

Patch / fix

  • npm jquery-validation 1.20.0
  • n/a jquery-validation 1.20.0
  • znuny Debian 14 6.5.16-1
  • kalkun Debian 14, Debian 13 0.8.3.2-1
  • phpmyadmin Debian 13 4:5.2.2-really+dfsg-1+deb13u1
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14 4:5.2.2-really+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-3573

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red hat product security vex CVE-2025-3573 updated cvss 6.1

jquery-validation: XSS Vulnerability in jquery-validation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 dotnet, dotnet9.0, dotnet-host, dotnet-sdk-9.0, dotnet-hostfxr-9.0, dotnet-runtime-9.0, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 dotnet9.0, dotnet-host, dotnet-sdk-9.0, dotnet-hostfxr-9.0, dotnet-runtime-9.0, dotnet-sdk-aot-9.0, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 dotnet9.0
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

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 SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA 4.0 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm jquery-validation
<1.20.0
1.20.0

Affected products

  • n/a jquery-validation

Classification

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

References

Sources

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