CVE-2024-30875
Published: 17 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-30875 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-30875 is a cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting the JavaScript library jQuery UI version 1.13.1. The flaw resides in the window.addEventListener component and is tracked under CWE-79, with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.1 reflecting network attack vector, low complexity, and impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A remote attacker can supply a crafted payload to trigger the issue, enabling theft of sensitive information or execution of arbitrary code in the context of a victim application that incorporates the library. The supplier has disputed the report, stating that the vulnerability cannot be reproduced and that the provided exploitation example does not clarify whether or how the target site actually uses jQuery UI.
The single public reference is a GitHub repository containing the original disclosure; no vendor advisory or patch addressing mitigation steps is referenced in the available data. The associated EPSS score has remained near 0.2 with only minor fluctuation between its current value of 0.1975 and recorded peak of 0.2122.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-28793
Vulnerability details
Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in JavaScript Library jquery-ui v.1.13.1 allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and execute arbitrary code via a crafted payload to the window.addEventListener component. NOTE: this is disputed by the Supplier because it cannot be…
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reproduced, and because the exploitation example does not indicate whether, or how, the example website is using jQuery UI.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.