Description

jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-9251

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2015-9251 CWE-707 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities