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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: snyk

Published: 2020-05-19T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:33:19.995Z

Reserved: 2020-01-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-7656

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-05-19T21:15:10.257

Modified: 2023-06-22T19:49:24.680

Link: CVE-2020-7656

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-7656 - Bugzilla