SCA: security update for ezyang/htmlpurifier (GHSA-6fh7-fwqj-mv49)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432049

Description

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

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in smoketests/configForm.php in HTML Purifier before 2.0.1 allows
remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to "unescaped
print_r output." (CVE-2007-3498)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6fh7-fwqj-mv49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432049

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

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-2007-3498

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3498

BID: 24699

cwe: CWE-79