February 25, 2014 - 15:21 UTC - Tags: retireretirejsowasp
After scanning Norway and Alexa Top 100,000, I decided to scan the Fortune 500 companies.
Summarized 385 (77%) out of the 500 are using JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities. Which means they will have problems with OWASP Top 10 2013-A9 Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities.
Again I would like to stress, that using a library with a known vulnerability, does not necessarily mean the site is vulnerable, because the vulnerable code may not be used.
Libraries
In the charts below red means the version has a known vulnerability
jQuery
jQuery is a very widely used library. I was surprised however to find so many different and old versions in use
jQuery UI
Loads of different versions
jQuery-mobile
Betas and release candidates in use here
YUI
The Yahoo User Interface Library is also quite widely used