CVE-2022-31160 | jQuery UI contains potential XSS vulnerability when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

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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 HTML contained encoded HTML entities will make them erroneously get decoded. This can lead to potentially executing JavaScript code. The bug has been patched in jQuery UI 1.13.2. To remediate the issue, someone who can change the initial HTML can wrap all the non-input contents of the `label` in a `span`.

Published: 2022-07-20 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2022-31160 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.90%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2022-31160

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-31160

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 5.87% 1.90% -3.98%
2 2026-06-13 7.76% 5.87% -1.89%
3 2026-05-06 — 7.76% —

Full EPSS history (58 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-31160

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-31160

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2022-31160

GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: npm — jQuery UI vulnerable to XSS when refreshing a checkboxradio with an HTML-like initial text label

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-31160

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-31160 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (jqueryui), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-31160
redhat high — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31160
suse medium CVE-2022-31160 severity moderate: SUSE including 6 source package names (pgadmin4, pgadmin4-cloud, pgadmin4-desktop, pgadmin4-doc, pgadmin4-web-uwsgi, system-user-pgadmin), 6 product×package rows across 1 product lines (openSUSE Leap 15.6): Known Not Affected 6. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31160/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-31160 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jqueryui), 13 status rows across 13 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 8, released 4, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-31160

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-31160

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
jqueryui jquery_ui < 1.13.2 cpe:2.3:a:jqueryui:jquery_ui:*:*:*:*:*:jquery:*:*
netapp h300s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h500s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h700s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h410s_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp h410c_firmware — cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp oncommand_insight — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:oncommand_insight:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
drupal jquery_ui_checkboxradio 8.x-1.0 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:jquery_ui_checkboxradio:8.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
drupal jquery_ui_checkboxradio 8.x-1.1 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:jquery_ui_checkboxradio:8.x-1.1:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
drupal jquery_ui_checkboxradio 8.x-1.2 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:jquery_ui_checkboxradio:8.x-1.2:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
drupal jquery_ui_checkboxradio 8.x-1.3 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:jquery_ui_checkboxradio:8.x-1.3:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 35 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 36 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 37 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 10.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-31160

URL Tags
https://blog.jqueryui.com/2022/07/jquery-ui-1-13-2-released/ Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/8cc5bae1caa1fcf96bf5862c5646c787020ba3f9 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-h6gj-6jjq-h8g9 Exploit Mitigation Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00015.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6XBR3G3JR5ZIOJDO4224M3INXDS2VFDD/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J5LGNTICB5BRFAG3DHVVELS6H3CZSQMO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QB2FJQXCNHO32VGVOC6DY6IPGVE4VDU6/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0007/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2022-052 Third Party Advisory
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