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SCA: security update for ezyang/htmlpurifier (GHSA-6rm6-mjmh-86jq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433068

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HTML Purifier before 4.1.1, as used in Mahara and other
 products, when the browser is Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
 HTML via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2010-2479)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6rm6-mjmh-86jq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433068

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

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-2010-2479

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2479

BID: 41259

cwe: CWE-79