CVE-2020-7656 jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method

Description

jquery prior to 1.9.0 allows Cross-site Scripting attacks via the load method. The load method fails to recognize and remove "<script>" HTML tags that contain a whitespace character, i.e: "</script >", which results in the enclosed script logic to be executed.

Affected products and versions