# org.primefaces:primefaces (Maven) vulnerabilities

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

## At a glance

- Latest release: 16.0.1 (Oct 16, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 16.0.1 (Oct 16, 2026), the latest release
- Dependents: 91
- Releases: 120 since 4.0 (Oct 2, 2013)
- Registry: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.primefaces/primefaces
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2020-10544: 4.0 to 7.0 (8.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2017-1000486: 5.0 to 5.3 (6.0 is outside it)

## Advisories (2)

### [CVE-2020-10544](https://cve.now/CVE-2020-10544): An XSS issue was discovered in tooltip/tooltip.js in PrimeTek PrimeFaces 7.0.11.

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Mar 13, 2020
- Affected: fixed in 8.0.
- Fixed in 8.0 (released Mar 5, 2020, 8 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 16.0.1, is not affected.

### [CVE-2017-1000486](https://cve.now/CVE-2017-1000486): Primetek Primefaces 5.x is vulnerable to a weak encryption flaw resulting in remote code execution

- Severity: Critical 9.8 · KEV
- Published: Jan 3, 2018
- Affected: from 5.0, fixed in 6.0.
- Fixed in 6.0 (released Jun 7, 2016, 575 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 16.0.1, is not affected.

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