CVE-2022-31160 — jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and

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 l

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
jquery	jquery	ui — < 1.13.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-22T17:48:33.457Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9
• github.com — https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/8cc5bae1caa1fcf96bf5862c5646c787020ba…
• blog.jqueryui.com — https://blog.jqueryui.com/2022/07/jquery-ui-1-13-2-released/
• www.drupal.org — https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2022-052
• security.netapp.com — https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0007/
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00015.html