In this article, you will learn how safe your hosted jQuery Libraries are.
Let’s discuss some security concerns, while using a jQuery library in the Web Applications. As you all know, jQuery is a simple, fast and concise form of JavaScript library, which is used to simplify HTML document traversing, animation, event handling etc. Nowadays I see, people suggest or are forced to use jQuery as JavaScript's alternative. Thus, what if I say JavaScript = jQuery? Is it a replacement? Anyway, that’s a separate topic to be discussed. How often do you use jQuery in your Applications? Let’s say you need an image slideshow kind of feature in your Web site. This can be easily achieved by freely available jQuery plugins or the libraries. Just find the source code of the examples, use it the same way and its done. Your slideshow is ready, easy and fast. Did you ever spend time to investigate what code is written inside the library? No, who cares. Note: I am not against jQuery, but let the concerns, given below, help everyone to think twice before using jQuery. Let’s look into some important points, before using jQuery,
Conclusion There are lots of other security concerns, like Cross-site request forgeries (CSRF or XSRF), Broken access control, etc. so make sure the jQuery library is well studied before using. I just tried to pinpoint some basic issues before using jQuery, so do more research on jQuery libraries before using.
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