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SCA: security update for symphonycms/symphony-2 (GHSA-wvq5-72qp-grjw)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434837

Description

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

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly other versions
 before 2.2.4 allow remote authenticated users with Author privileges to inject arbitrary web script or
 HTML via (1) the profile parameter to extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php, as
 demonstrated via requests to (a) the default URI, (b) about/, or (c) drafts/; or (2) the filter parameter
 in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php, as demonstrated via requests to (d) symphony/publish/comments or
 (e) symphony/publish/images. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
 (CVE-2011-4340)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wvq5-72qp-grjw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434837

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

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: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4340

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4340

BID: 50470

cwe: CWE-79