How severe is CVE-2012-6708?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 6.1 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2012-6708?

This is classified as CWE-79, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2012-6708 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 6.1

Vulnerability Description

jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.

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