Description
In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.2 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing it - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/security/advisories/GHSA-gxr4-xjj5-5px2
https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/
https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/1d61fd9407e6fbe82fe55cb0b938307aa0791f77
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200511-0006/
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-002
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4693
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00067.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-03
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00085.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00039.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-10
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2020-11
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-02
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00033.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162159/jQuery-1.2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-10
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00040.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOE7P7APPRQKD4FGNHBKJPDY6FFCOH3W/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QPN2L2XVQGUA2V5HNQJWHK3APSK3VN7K/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdf44341677cf7eec7e9aa96dcf3f37ed709544863d619cca8c36f133%40%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SFP4UK4EGP4AFH2MWYJ5A5Z4I7XVFQ6B/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AVKYXLWCLZBV2N7M46KYK4LVA5OXWPBY/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SAPQVX3XDNPGFT26QAQ6AJIXZZBZ4CD4/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r706cfbc098420f7113968cc377247ec3d1439bce42e679c11c609e2d%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbb448222ba62c430e21e13f940be4cb5cfc373cd3bce56b48c0ffa67%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r49ce4243b4738dd763caeb27fa8ad6afb426ae3e8c011ff00b8b1f48%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8f70b0f65d6bedf316ecd899371fd89e65333bc988f6326d2956735c%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r564585d97bc069137e64f521e68ba490c7c9c5b342df5d73c49a0760%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree3bd8ddb23df5fa4e372d11c226830ea3650056b1059f3965b3fce2%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rede9cfaa756e050a3d83045008f84a62802fc68c17f2b4eabeaae5e4%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54565a8f025c7c4f305355fdfd75b68eca442eebdb5f31c2e7d977ae%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re4ae96fa5c1a2fe71ccbb7b7ac1538bd0cb677be270a2bf6e2f8d108%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0483ba0072783c2e1bfea613984bfb3c86e73ba8879d780dc1cc7d36%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
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