jQuery UI up to 1.13.1 checkboxradio cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in jQuery UI up to 1.13.1. The impacted element is the function checkboxradio. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-31160. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in jQuery UI up to 1.13.1 (JavaScript Library). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function checkboxradio. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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`.

The weakness was published 07/21/2022 as GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-31160 since 05/18/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 276306 (TencentOS Server 4: python-XStatic-jquery-ui (TSSA-2025:0080)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.13.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8cc5bae1caa1fcf96bf5862c5646c787020ba3f9 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (276306). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• JavaScript Library

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• jQuery UI

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• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1

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• open-source

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