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SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.journal.taglib (GHSA-m2gx-7pvx-3gvg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433788

Description

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

 - Liferay Portal through 7.2.0 GA1 allows XSS via a journal article title to journal_article/page.jsp in
 journal/journal-taglib. (CVE-2019-16147)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m2gx-7pvx-3gvg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433788

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16147

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16147

cwe: CWE-79