Vigil@nce - jquery-ui: Cross Site Scripting via closeText
January 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via closeText of
jquery-ui, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of the
web site.
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 22/11/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The jquery-ui product offers a web service.
However, it does not filter received data via closeText before
inserting them in generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting via
closeText of jquery-ui, in order to run JavaScript code in the
context of the web site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/jquery-ui-Cross-Site-Scripting-via-closeText-24511