CVE-2020-7656
jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "<script>"…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 6.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "<script>" HTML tags that contain a whitespace character, i.e: "</script >", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- jQuery 3.3.1 - Prototype Pollution & XSS Exploit (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52141webapps, multiplepublished 8 Apr 2025Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
jquery
- affected All versions prior to version 1.9.0
Affected packages
Affected packages4
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.webjars.npm:jqueryGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetjQueryGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsjquery-railsGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- npmjqueryGHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200528-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERY-569619 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2021-07-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-Multiple-J-Web-vulnerabilities-resolved-in-Junos-OS-21-2R1?language=en_US (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0437 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q4m3-2j7h-f7xw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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