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SCA: security update for ezyang/htmlpurifier (GHSA-3p68-m5qw-9g9w)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 433695

Description

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

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in HTML Purifier before 4.1.0, when Internet Explorer
 is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) background-image,
 (2) background, or (3) font-family Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) property, a different vulnerability than
 CVE-2010-2479. (CVE-2010-4183)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3p68-m5qw-9g9w

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433695

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: 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-2010-4183

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: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4183

BID: 44983

cwe: CWE-79