Progress Kendo UI for jQuery: Cross-Site Scripting via Chart Tooltip
Progress Kendo UI for jQuery Chart component is vulnerable to an XSS flaw where default tooltips render point values as raw HTML, allowing arbitrary JavaScript execution upon user interaction.
CVE search metadata
CVE search record: CVE-2026-124698. Severity: high. CVSS: 7.1. KEV: no. Product: Kendo UI for jQuery (<= 2016.2.607). Brief: Progress Kendo UI for jQuery: Cross-Site Scripting via Chart Tooltip. Brief link: https://feed.craftedsignal.io/briefs/2026-11-kendo-ui-xss-cve-2026-124698/
Triage facts
Revision 1- Applicability
- Kendo UI for jQuery (<= 2016.2.607)
- Evidence
- Unknown
- Severity
- High
- Sources
- 1 public source
- Freshness
- Revision 1Nov 12, 18:47 UTC
- Vulnerabilities
- 1 CVE
- Source quality
- A2Roughly even chance
Progress Kendo UI for jQuery contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability within its Chart component. The default tooltip mechanism renders point values as raw HTML. If an attacker influences a string point value, they can inject markup that executes as JavaScript when a user hovers over the point.
Impact
Successful exploitation may compromise the confidentiality and integrity of data available in the user's browser context.
Recommendation
Users should update their software to address the vulnerability.