CVE-2020-11023: Cross-site Scripting

April 29, 2020 (updated November 30, 2021)

In jQuery, passing HTML containing <option> elements from untrusted sources, even after sanitizing it, to one of jQuery’s DOM manipulation methods (i.e., .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code.

References

blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released
jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11023

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