jQuery: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2015-9251)
Published Sources: BSI, CVE.org, Msrc Update Guide, OSV
What is affected, what to do
jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.
An exploit is publicly available. Update jQuery to version 3.0.0, Oracle Communications Converged Application Server to version 7.0.0.1, Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper to version 6.1.0.4.0.
- Affected
- jQuery
lt *..3.0.0 - Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process
eq 6.2.0.0..6.2.0.0 - Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process
eq 6.2.1.0..6.2.1.0 - Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process
eq 6.2.2.0..6.2.2.0 - Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process
eq 6.2.3.0..6.2.3.0 - Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process
eq 6.2.3.1..6.2.3.1 - Oracle Banking Platform
eq 2.6.0..2.6.0 - Oracle Banking Platform
eq 2.6.1..2.6.1 - Oracle Banking Platform
eq 2.6.2..2.6.2 - Oracle Business Process Management Suite
eq 11.1.1.9.0..11.1.1.9.0 - Oracle Business Process Management Suite
eq 12.1.3.0.0..12.1.3.0.0 - Oracle Business Process Management Suite
eq 12.2.1.3.0..12.2.1.3.0 - Oracle Communications Converged Application Server
lt *..7.0.0.1 - Oracle Communications Interactive Session Recorder
eq 6.0..6.0 - Oracle Communications Interactive Session Recorder
eq 6.1..6.1 - Oracle Communications Interactive Session Recorder
eq 6.2..6.2 - Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper
lt *..6.1.0.4.0 - Oracle Communications Webrtc Session Controller
lt *..7.2 - Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio
eq 3.1.0..3.1.0 - Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio
eq 3.2.0..3.2.0 - Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
eq 12.2.2..12.2.2 - Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
eq 12.3.3..12.3.3 - Oracle Enterprise Operations Monitor
eq 3.4..3.4 - Oracle Enterprise Operations Monitor
eq 4.0..4.0 - Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure
lte 7.3.3..7.3.5 - Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure
lte 8.0.0..8.0.7 - Oracle Financial Services Asset Liability Management
lte 8.0.4..8.0.7 - Oracle Financial Services Data Integration Hub
lte 8.0.5..8.0.7 - Oracle Financial Services Funds Transfer Pricing
lte 8.0.4..8.0.7 - Oracle Financial Services Hedge Management And Ifrs Valuations
lte 8.0.4..8.0.7 - Oracle Financial Services Liquidity Risk Management
lte 8.0.2..8.0.6 - Oracle Financial Services Loan Loss Forecasting And Provisioning
lte 8.0.2..8.0.7 - Oracle Financial Services Market Risk Measurement And Management
eq 8.0.5..8.0.5 - Oracle Financial Services Market Risk Measurement And Management
eq 8.0.6..8.0.6 - Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management
lte 8.0.4..8.0.6 - Oracle Financial Services Reconciliation Framework
eq 8.0.5..8.0.5 - Oracle Financial Services Reconciliation Framework
eq 8.0.6..8.0.6 - Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer
eq 12.2.1.3.0..12.2.1.3.0 - Oracle Healthcare Foundation
eq 7.1..7.1 - Oracle Healthcare Foundation
eq 7.2..7.2 - Oracle Healthcare Translational Research
eq 3.1.0..3.1.0 - Oracle Hospitality Cruise Fleet Management
eq 9.0.11..9.0.11 - Oracle Hospitality Guest Access
eq 4.2.0..4.2.0 - Oracle Hospitality Guest Access
eq 4.2.1..4.2.1 - Oracle Hospitality Materials Control
eq 18.1..18.1 - Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics
eq 9.1.0..9.1.0 - Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating And Underwriting
eq 5.2..5.2 - Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating And Underwriting
eq 5.4..5.4 - Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating And Underwriting
eq 5.5..5.5 - Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools
eq 9.2..9.2 - Oracle JDeveloper
eq 11.1.1.9.0..11.1.1.9.0 - Oracle JDeveloper
eq 12.1.3.0.0..12.1.3.0.0 - Oracle JDeveloper
eq 12.2.1.3.0..12.2.1.3.0 - Oracle OSS Support Tools
eq 19.1..19.1 - Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
eq 8.55..8.55 - Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
eq 8.56..8.56 - Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
eq 8.57..8.57 - Oracle Primavera Gateway
eq 15.2..15.2 - Oracle Primavera Gateway
eq 16.2..16.2 - Oracle Primavera Gateway
eq 17.12..17.12 - Oracle Primavera Unifier
lte 17.1..17.12 - Oracle Primavera Unifier
eq 16.1..16.1 - Oracle Primavera Unifier
eq 16.2..16.2 - Oracle Primavera Unifier
eq 18.8..18.8 - Oracle Real-Time Scheduler
eq 2.3.0..2.3.0 - Oracle Retail Allocation
eq 15.0.2..15.0.2 - Oracle Retail Customer Insights
eq 15.0..15.0 - Oracle Retail Customer Insights
eq 16.0..16.0 - Oracle Retail Invoice Matching
eq 15.0..15.0 - Oracle Retail Sales Audit
eq 15.0..15.0 - Oracle Retail Workforce Management Software
eq 1.60.9..1.60.9 - Oracle Retail Workforce Management Software
eq 1.64.0..1.64.0 - Oracle Service Bus
eq 12.1.3.0.0..12.1.3.0.0 - Oracle Service Bus
eq 12.2.1.3.0..12.2.1.3.0 - Oracle Siebel UI Framework
eq 18.10..18.10 - Oracle Siebel UI Framework
eq 18.11..18.11 - Oracle Utilities Framework
lte 4.3.0.1..4.3.0.4 - Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management
eq 2.3.0..2.3.0 - Oracle WebCenter Sites
eq 11.1.1.8.0..11.1.1.8.0 - Oracle WebLogic Server
eq 12.1.3.0..12.1.3.0 - Oracle WebLogic Server
eq 12.2.1.3..12.2.1.3
- jQuery
- Fixed in
- jQuery
3.0.0 - Oracle Communications Converged Application Server
7.0.0.1 - Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper
6.1.0.4.0 - Oracle Communications Webrtc Session Controller
7.2
- jQuery
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Metrics
6.1
Priority
XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.
Source: NVD, CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v3
Severity Medium on the scale from 0 to 10.
Source: BSI, CVE.org, Msrc Update Guide, OSV
29.7 %
EPSS score
Elevated — model estimates 10-50% exploitation likelihood.
Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 98.2
Show all metrics
- Severity
- Medium
Priority (0–325)
The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?
Read in glossary- 107.65 Methodology
Exploit maturity
An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.
Read in glossary- PoC (publicly reported)
XIEM Effective CVSS
XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.
Read in glossary- 6.1 Methodology
CVSS v3
CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.
Read in glossary- 6.1
EPSS score
The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.
Read in glossary- 29.7 %
- Elevated — model estimates 10-50% exploitation likelihood.
EPSS percentile
The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.
Read in glossary- 98.2
- Critical — this CVE ranks in the top fifth of all CVEs scored today (rank ≥ 80%).
KEV status
The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.
Read in glossary- —
- Published
Detection rules
No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.
Classification under NIS2 and CRA
Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.
NIS2
NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.
Read in glossary- Handle the vulnerability in regular vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2.
CRA
The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.
Read in glossary- From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.
Read in glossary- Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.
Description
jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.
Source: BSI WID Portal, BSI CSAF, NVD (NIST), Microsoft Security Update Guide, OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), cvelistv5
Affected products
The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.
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| jquery | jquery |
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| oracle | agile_product_lifecycle_management_for_process |
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| oracle | banking_platform |
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| oracle | business_process_management_suite |
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| oracle | communications_converged_application_server |
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| oracle | communications_interactive_session_recorder |
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| oracle | communications_services_gatekeeper |
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| oracle | communications_webrtc_session_controller |
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| oracle | endeca_information_discovery_studio |
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| oracle | enterprise_manager_ops_center |
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| oracle | enterprise_operations_monitor |
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| oracle | financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure |
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| oracle | financial_services_asset_liability_management |
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| oracle | financial_services_data_integration_hub |
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| oracle | financial_services_funds_transfer_pricing |
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| oracle | financial_services_hedge_management_and_ifrs_valuations |
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| oracle | financial_services_liquidity_risk_management |
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| oracle | financial_services_loan_loss_forecasting_and_provisioning |
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| oracle | financial_services_market_risk_measurement_and_management |
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| oracle | financial_services_profitability_management |
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| oracle | financial_services_reconciliation_framework |
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| oracle | fusion_middleware_mapviewer |
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| oracle | healthcare_foundation |
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| oracle | healthcare_translational_research |
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| oracle | hospitality_cruise_fleet_management |
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| oracle | hospitality_guest_access |
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| oracle | hospitality_materials_control |
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| oracle | hospitality_reporting_and_analytics |
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| oracle | insurance_insbridge_rating_and_underwriting |
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Vendors and products
- IBM Business Automation Workflow
- Jquery jQuery
- Oracle Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process
- Oracle Oracle Banking Platform
- Oracle Oracle Business Process Management Suite
- Oracle Oracle Communications Converged Application Server
- Oracle Oracle Communications Interactive Session Recorder
- Oracle Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper
- Oracle Oracle Communications WebRTC Session Controller
- Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio
- Oracle Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
- Oracle Enterprise Operations Monitor
Public exploit references
Publicly reported proof-of-concepts, exploit modules and detection templates for this vulnerability. NEOSEC links to the original sources only and does not provide any exploit code.
| Packet Storm | dotCMS 5.1.1 Vulnerable Dependencies (opens in a new tab)packetstormsecurity.com | PoC (publicly reported)reported, not verified | — |
| Packet Storm | RetireJS CORS Issue Script Execution (opens in a new tab)packetstormsecurity.com | PoC (publicly reported)reported, not verified | — |
| Packet Storm | OctoberCMS Insecure Dependencies (opens in a new tab)packetstormsecurity.com | PoC (publicly reported)reported, not verified | — |
References & sources
- NVD (NIST)vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9251advisory
- github.comjquery/jquery/issues/2432web, x_refsource_MISC, Issue tracking, Patch, Third-party advisory
- github.comjquery/jquery/issues/2432web
- github.comjquery/jquery/pull/2588web, x_refsource_MISC, Issue tracking, Patch, Third-party advisory
- github.comjquery/jquery/pull/2588/commits/c254d308a7d3f1eac4d0b42837804cf…web, x_refsource_MISC, Patch, Third-party advisory
- github.comjquery/jquery/commit/b078a62013782c7424a4a61a240c23c4c0b42614web
- github.comjquery/jquery/commit/f60729f3903d17917dc351f3ac87794de379b0ccweb, x_refsource_MISC, Patch, Third-party advisory
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0481web, Vendor advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- seclists.org20190509 dotCMS v5.1.1 Vulnerabilitiesweb, Mailing list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- security.netapp.comadvisory/ntap-20210108-0004web
- security.snyk.iovuln/SNYK-DOTNET-JQUERY-450227web
- snyk.iovuln/npm:jquery:20150627web, x_refsource_MISC, Patch, Third-party advisory
- sw.aveva.comhubfs/assets-2018/pdf/security-bulletin/SecurityBulletin_LFSec1…web, x_refsource_MISC, Third-party advisory
- web.archive.orgweb/20200227030101/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105658web
- oracle.comsecurity-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlweb, x_refsource_MISC
- oracle.comsecurity-alerts/cpujan2020.htmlweb, x_refsource_MISC
- oracle.comsecurity-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlweb, x_refsource_MISC
- oracle.comsecurity-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlweb, x_refsource_MISC
- oracle.comtechnetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.htmlweb, x_refsource_MISC, Patch
- oracle.comtechnetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.htmlweb, x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch
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