jQuery UI Checkboxradio - Moderately critical - Cross site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-052

Project: jQuery UI Checkboxradio
Version: 8.x-1.3, 8.x-1.2, 8.x-1.1, 8.x-1.0
Date: 2022-August-10
Security risk: Moderately critical 13∕25
Vulnerability: Cross site scripting

Description

jQuery UI is a third-party library used by Drupal. The jQuery UI Checkboxradio module provides the jQuery UI Checkboxradio library (which was previously in Drupal 8 core, but has since been removed from core and moved to this module).

As part of the jQuery UI 1.13.2 update, the jQuery UI project disclosed following security issue that may affect sites using the jQuery UI Checkboxradio module:

• CVE-2022-31160: XSS when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

Solution

Install the latest version. If you use the jQuery UI Checkboxradio module for Drupal 9, upgrade to:

• jQuery UI Checkboxradio 8.x-1.4.