Title: exploit scanner warns that jquery.js has malicious code
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# exploit scanner warns that jquery.js has malicious code

 *  [nestorin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nestorin/)
 * (@nestorin)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exploit-scanner-warns-that-jqueryjs-has-malicious-code/)
 * Hi
    Today I had to run a wordpress plugin called exploit-scanner(searching for
   exploits). It warned me about a snippet of code inside wp-includes/js/jquery/
   jquery.js. It points to this code `n(a,b,c){var d="0x"+b-65536;return` I cant
   find this code in jQuerys recent versions. I also checked WordPress 4.1 and this
   code is still there. I can’t read this compressed version 🙂 Is it a forked version
   of jquery? What does this code do?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exploit-scanner-warns-that-jqueryjs-has-malicious-code/#post-5671113)
 * I think it’s safe, especially if that’s in an existing core file from a fresh
   download. Notice that Exploit Scanner hasn’t been updated for 4.1 yet: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/exploit-scanner/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/exploit-scanner/)

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 * [scanner](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/scanner/)
 * [warning](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/warning/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exploit-scanner-warns-that-jqueryjs-has-malicious-code/#post-5671113)
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