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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2022-31160 json

jQuery UI contains potential XSS vulnerability when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

published 2022-07-18 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9 , EUVD-2022-6344

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of jQuery. Versions prior to 1.13.2 are potentially vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Initializing a checkboxradio widget on an input enclosed within a label makes that parent label contents considered as the input label. Calling `.checkboxradio( "refresh" )` on such a widget and the initial HTML contained encoded HTML entities will make them erroneously get decoded. This can lead to potentially executing JavaScript code. The bug has been patched in jQuery UI 1.13.2. To remediate the issue, someone who can change the initial HTML can wrap all the non-input contents of the `label` in a `span`.

Patch / fix

  • npm jquery-ui 1.13.2
  • maven org.webjars.npm:jquery-ui 1.13.2
  • rubygems jquery-ui-rails 8.0.0
  • nuget jQuery.UI.Combined 1.13.2
  • jqueryui jquery_ui 1.13.2
  • jqueryui Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.13.2+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-31160

  • jqueryui Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.12.1+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • jqueryui Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.12.1+dfsg-5ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm2
  • jqueryui Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.12.1+dfsg-5ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm3
  • jqueryui Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 1.13.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-31160

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-31160 updated cvss 6.1

jqueryui: XSS when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 swagger-ui, hawtio hawtio Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) python-XStatic-jquery-ui Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 xstatic-jquery-ui-common, python3-XStatic-jquery-ui Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 xstatic-jquery-ui-common, python3-XStatic-jquery-ui
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

2.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm jquery-ui
<1.13.2
1.13.2
maven org.webjars.npm:jquery-ui
<1.13.2
1.13.2
rubygems jquery-ui-rails
<8.0.0
8.0.0
nuget jQuery.UI.Combined
<1.13.2
1.13.2

Affected products

  • jquery jquery-ui

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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