# net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core (Maven) vulnerabilities

3 known vulnerabilities (1 critical, 1 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: not known (cve.now hasn't read this package's releases)
- Newest unaffected release: not known without release data
- Registry: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/net.sourceforge.pmd/pmd-core

## Advisories (3)

### [CVE-2026-28338](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-28338): PMD Designer has Stored XSS in VBHTMLRenderer and YAHTMLRenderer via unescaped violation messages

- Severity: Medium 6.8
- Published: Feb 27, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 7.22.0.

### [CVE-2025-23215](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-23215): PMD Designer's release key passphrase (GPG) available on Maven Central in cleartext

- Severity: Critical 9.3
- Published: Jan 31, 2025
- Affected: from 6.21.0, fixed in 7.10.0.

### [CVE-2019-7722](https://cve.now/CVE-2019-7722): PMD 5.8.1 and earlier processes XML external entities in ruleset files it parses as part of the analysis process, allowing attackers…

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Feb 11, 2019
- Affected: fixed in 6.0.0.

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