Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) In drupal/jquery_ui_datepicker

Description

jQuery UI is a third-party library used by Drupal. The jQuery UI Datepicker module provides the jQuery UI Datepicker library, which is not included in Drupal 9 core.

jQuery UI was previously thought to be end-of-life.

Late in 2021, jQuery UI announced that they would be continuing development, and released a jQuery UI 1.13.0 version. As part of this 1.13.0 update, they disclosed the following security issues that may affect site using the jQuery UI Datepicker module:

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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