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CVE-2025-3573

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Versions of the package jquery-validation before 1.20.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the showLabel() function, which may take input from a user-controlled placeholder value. This value will populate a message via $.validator.messages in a user localizable dictionary.

Affected products

• jquery-validation: before 1.20.0 — fixed in 1.20.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: jquery-validation 1.20.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/commit/7a490d8f39bd988027568ddcf51755e1f4688902
• https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/pull/2462
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERYVALIDATION-5952285

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