Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-579v-mp3v-rrw5

jQuery vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published May 14, 2022Updated Feb 3, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2011-4969

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

jquery npm

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.6.3	`1.6.3`Advisories →

jQuery NuGet

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.6.3	`1.6.3`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (10) `1.4.1` `1.4.2` `1.4.3` `1.4.4` `1.5.0` `1.5.1` `1.5.2` `1.6.0` `1.6.1` `1.6.2`

jquery-rails RubyGems

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.0.16	`1.0.16`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (28) `0.1.1` `0.1.2` `0.1.3` `0.2` `0.2.1` `0.2.2` `0.2.3` `0.2.4` `0.2.5` `0.2.6` `0.2.7` `1.0` `1.0.1` `1.0.10` `1.0.11` `1.0.12` `1.0.13` `1.0.14` `1.0.15` `1.0.2` `1.0.3` `1.0.4` `1.0.5` `1.0.6` `1.0.7` `1.0.8` `1.0.9` `1.0.rc`

org.webjars.npm:jquery Maven

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.6.3	`1.6.3`Advisories →

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jQuery before 1.6.3, when using location.hash to select elements, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted tag.