Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-6662

Title: Jqueryui Jquery Ui Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-6662.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Nov 24, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-6662: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the default content option in jquery.ui.tooltip.js in the Tooltip widget in jQuery UI before 1.10.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the title attribute, which is not properly handled in the autocomplete combo box demo.

Impacted Vendors

jqueryui 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/8859 http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/8861 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0442.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1462.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/613 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/616 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71107 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98697 https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/5fee6fd5000072ff32f2d65b6451f39af9e0e39e https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/f2854408cce7e4b7fc6bf8676761904af9c96bde https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/2432 http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/8859 http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/8861 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0442.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1462.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/613 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/616 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71107 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98697 https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/5fee6fd5000072ff32f2d65b6451f39af9e0e39e https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/f2854408cce7e4b7fc6bf8676761904af9c96bde https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/2432

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-6662 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 24, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.