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  "id": "CVE-2020-11023",
  "url": "https://spydr.io/cve/CVE-2020-11023",
  "published": "2020-04-29T21:15:11.743Z",
  "modified": "2026-06-17T02:48:52.930Z",
  "score": 6.1,
  "severity": "medium",
  "cvss_version": "3.1",
  "vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
  "score_source": "NVD",
  "epss": 0.84887,
  "epss_percentile": 0.99707,
  "exploited": true,
  "kev": {
    "added": "2025-01-23",
    "due": "2025-02-13",
    "action": "Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.",
    "ransomware": "Unknown",
    "name": "JQuery Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability",
    "notes": "This vulnerability could affect an open-source component, third-party library, protocol, or proprietary implementation that could be used by different products. For more information, please see: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/security/advisories/GHSA-jpcq-cgw6-v4j6 ; https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11023"
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  "ssvc_exploitation": "active",
  "vendors": [
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  "products": [
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  "cwes": [
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  "description": "In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.0.3 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML containing <option> elements from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing it - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code. This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.",
  "status": "Analyzed",
  "score_type": "Primary",
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    "cvss_v40": null,
    "cvss_v31": 6.1,
    "cvss_v30": null
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  "nvd_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11023",
  "covered_in": [],
  "attribution": [
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      "source": "NVD",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov",
      "notice": "This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD."
    },
    {
      "source": "CISA KEV",
      "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog",
      "notice": "Known exploited vulnerabilities from the CISA KEV catalog."
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    {
      "source": "FIRST EPSS",
      "url": "https://www.first.org/epss",
      "notice": "Exploit prediction scores from FIRST EPSS."
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