Medium
Security advisory
jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7656
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.
osv:CVE-2020-7656
Complete source record
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