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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (GHSA-hwp2-gvm5-452f)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 437070

Description

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

 - In Liferay Portal before 7.1 CE GA4, an XSS vulnerability exists in the SimpleCaptcha API when custom code
 passes unsanitized input into the "url" parameter of the JSP taglib call <liferay-ui:captcha url="<%= url
 %>" /> or <liferay-captcha:captcha url="<%= url %>" />. Liferay Portal out-of-the-box behavior with no
 customizations is not vulnerable. (CVE-2019-6588)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwp2-gvm5-452f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 437070

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/27/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6588

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6588

cwe: CWE-79