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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1qN3F2LXBnZjYtaHZoNM0Wtw

XSS in `*Text` options of the Datepicker widget in jquery-ui

Impact

Accepting the value of various *Text options of the Datepicker widget from untrusted sources may execute untrusted code. For example, initializing the datepicker in the following way:

$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker( {
	showButtonPanel: true,
	showOn: "both",
	closeText: "<script>doEvilThing( 'closeText XSS' )</script>",
	currentText: "<script>doEvilThing( 'currentText XSS' )</script>",
	prevText: "<script>doEvilThing( 'prevText XSS' )</script>",
	nextText: "<script>doEvilThing( 'nextText XSS' )</script>",
	buttonText: "<script>doEvilThing( 'buttonText XSS' )</script>",
	appendText: "<script>doEvilThing( 'appendText XSS' )</script>",
} );

will call doEvilThing with 6 different parameters coming from all *Text options.

Patches

The issue is fixed in jQuery UI 1.13.0. The values passed to various *Text options are now always treated as pure text, not HTML.

Workarounds

A workaround is to not accept the value of the *Text options from untrusted sources.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, search for a relevant issue in the jQuery UI repo. If you don't find an answer, open a new issue.

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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: 7 months ago

CVSS Score: 6.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-j7qv-pgf6-hvh4, CVE-2021-41183
References:

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-j7qv-pgf6-hvh4
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41183
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/1953
• https://blog.jqueryui.com/2021/10/jquery-ui-1-13-0-released/
• https://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/15284
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211118-0004/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NXIUUBRVLA4E7G7MMIKCEN75YN7UFERW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/O74SXYY7RGXREQDQUDQD4BPJ4QQTD2XQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SNXA7XRKGINWSUIPIZ6ZBCTV6N3KSHES/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00014.html
• https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2022-004
• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-001
• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-002
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-09
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HVKIOWSXL2RF2ULNAP7PHESYCFSZIJE3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SGSY236PYSFYIEBRGDERLA7OSY6D7XL4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVKIOWSXL2RF2ULNAP7PHESYCFSZIJE3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NXIUUBRVLA4E7G7MMIKCEN75YN7UFERW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O74SXYY7RGXREQDQUDQD4BPJ4QQTD2XQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGSY236PYSFYIEBRGDERLA7OSY6D7XL4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SNXA7XRKGINWSUIPIZ6ZBCTV6N3KSHES/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00040.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7qv-pgf6-hvh4

Repository: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui
Blast Radius: 59.3

Affected Packages