JQuery Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2025-01-23
Federal due date
2025-02-13
Vendor
JQuery
Product
JQuery
EPSS
97.1th percentile (score 0.347, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11023

CISA short description

JQuery contains a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. When passing maliciously formed, untrusted input enclosed in HTML tags, JQuery's DOM manipulators can execute untrusted code in the context of the user's browser.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.