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SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web (GHSA-hq29-vqg6-pjpw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432651

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in users.jsp in the Profile Search functionality in Liferay
 before 7.0.0 CE RC1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the FirstName
 field. (CVE-2016-3670)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hq29-vqg6-pjpw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432651

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/9/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3670

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3670

BID: 91017

cwe: CWE-79