CVE-2017-6929

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A jQuery cross site scripting vulnerability is present when making Ajax requests to untrusted domains. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that it requires contributed or custom modules in order to exploit. For Drupal 8, this vulnerability was already fixed in Drupal 8.4.0 in the Drupal core upgrade to jQuery 3. For Drupal 7, it is fixed in the current release (Drupal 7.57) for jQuery 1.4.4 (the version that ships with Drupal 7 core) as well as for other newer versions of jQuery that might be used on the site, for example using the jQuery Update module.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Drupal: from 7.0 before 7.57; from 8.0.0 before 8.4.0 — fixed in 7.57, 8.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drupal 7.57, 8.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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