CVE-2015-9251

Publication date 18 January 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
jquery	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

fix is intrusive and backwards-incompatible, see bug 3011 Due to this, we will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu stable releases. Marking as ignored.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
jquery	Upstream: f60729f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N