# CVE-2022-31160: jQuery UI contains potential XSS vulnerability when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

- Also known as: GHSA-H6GJ-6JJQ-H8G9
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 1.13.2, 8.0.0
- Published: 2022-07-20 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- jquery jquery-ui: fixed in 1.13.2
- jquery-ui (npm): fixed in 1.13.2
- org.webjars.npm:jquery-ui (Maven): fixed in 1.13.2
- jquery-ui-rails (RubyGems): fixed in 8.0.0
- jQuery.UI.Combined (NuGet): fixed in 1.13.2

## Description

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`.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on jquery jquery-ui, jquery-ui, org.webjars.npm:jquery-ui or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (1.13.2, 8.0.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9
- https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/8cc5bae1caa1fcf96bf5862c5646c787020ba3f9
- https://blog.jqueryui.com/2022/07/jquery-ui-1-13-2-released/
- https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2022-052
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0007/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB2FJQXCNHO32VGVOC6DY6IPGVE4VDU6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6XBR3G3JR5ZIOJDO4224M3INXDS2VFDD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J5LGNTICB5BRFAG3DHVVELS6H3CZSQMO/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00015.html
- https://github.com/CyberOne-TeamARES/jquery-cve-2022-31160

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