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SCA: security update for pgadmin4 (GHSA-6p2c-69cv-3fxq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 442087

Description

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

 - Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in pgAdmin 4 Browser Tree and Explain Visualizer modules.
 User-controlled PostgreSQL object names (database, schema, table, column, etc.) were assigned to DOM
 elements via innerHTML, allowing crafted object names containing HTML markup to execute attacker-supplied
 JavaScript in the browser of any pgAdmin user who navigated to or executed EXPLAIN over the malicious
 object. Fix replaces innerHTML with textContent. This issue affects pgAdmin 4: before 9.15.
 (CVE-2026-7814)

Solution

Update the pgadmin4 library and its related packages to version 9.15 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p2c-69cv-3fxq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 442087

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/18/2026

Updated: 5/27/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.42

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-7814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-7814

cwe: CWE-79