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net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core: vulnerability history, versions and safety

net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core is a package in the Maven ecosystem. Vulert records 2 vulnerabilities for it across 113 releases, from May 2022 to Feb 2026. Each vulnerability names the versions it affects, the fixed version to move to, and a workaround where no fix has been published.

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2 vulnerabilities recorded H1 M1
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0 with no fix published

Every vulnerability has a patched version to move to.

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1 in the last 12 months

Most recent disclosure 28 Feb 2026.

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0 malicious-package vulnerabilities

No published version shipped hostile code.

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Vulert verdict on net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core 7.28.0 i

Updated on 23 Oct 2026

Good news: 7.28.0, the version you would install today, has no known vulnerabilities. Older releases do — the table below lists all 2.

Package health score 82/100
  • Security Minor issues
  • Maintenance Sustainable
  • Popularity Widely used
  • Community Moderate

What to do: Stay on 7.28.0 or newer. This can change: a vulnerability disclosed tomorrow can affect 7.28.0 too — Vulert watches the package and alerts you if that happens. Monitor it with Vulert →

  • Current release 7.28.0 — unaffected i
  • Vulnerabilities on record 2 over 3 years · 1 in the last year i
  • Latest disclosure 28 Feb 2026 i
  • Highest CVSS 8.1 i
  • With no published fix 0 i
  • Depended on by 50 packages i
  • Stars 5,513 i
  • OpenSSF scorecard 6/10 i
  • Last release this month i
  • Licence non-standard i

Version list, release dates, licence and dependants published by Maven Central, refreshed 23 Oct 2026. Licence information is not legal advice.

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01 Versions

Which versions are affected

Every version Vulert tracks for net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core, newest first, with the vulnerabilities recorded against each one. A version showing none has no vulnerability in the Vulert database — open it for the full picture on that release.

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Version Released Vulert vulnerabilities Licence Fix published Details
7.28.0 25 Sep 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.27.0 28 Aug 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.26.0 29 Jun 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.25.0 29 May 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.24.0 24 Apr 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.23.0 27 Mar 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.22.0 27 Feb 2026 none non-standard — Details →
7.21.0 30 Jan 2026 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.20.0 30 Dec 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.19.0 28 Nov 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.18.0 31 Oct 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.17.0 12 Sep 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.16.0 25 Jul 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.15.0 27 Jun 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.14.0 30 May 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.13.0 25 Apr 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.12.0 28 Mar 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.11.0 28 Feb 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.10.0 31 Jan 2025 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.9.0 27 Dec 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.8.0 29 Nov 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.7.0 25 Oct 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.6.0 27 Sep 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.5.0 30 Aug 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.4.0 26 Jul 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.3.0 28 Jun 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.2.0 31 May 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.1.0 26 Apr 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.0.0 22 Mar 2024 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.0.0-rc4 30 Sep 2023 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.0.0-rc3 30 May 2023 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.0.0-rc2 29 Apr 2023 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
7.0.0-rc1 25 Mar 2023 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.55.0 25 Feb 2023 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.54.0 28 Jan 2023 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.53.0 31 Dec 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.52.0 26 Nov 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.51.0 29 Oct 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.50.0 30 Sep 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.49.0 31 Aug 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.48.0 30 Jul 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.47.0 25 Jun 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.46.0 28 May 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.45.0 30 Apr 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.44.0 27 Mar 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.43.0 26 Feb 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.42.0 29 Jan 2022 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.41.0 27 Nov 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.40.0 30 Oct 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.39.0 25 Sep 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.38.0 28 Aug 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.37.0 31 Jul 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.36.0 26 Jun 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.35.0 29 May 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.34.0 24 Apr 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.33.0 27 Mar 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.32.0 27 Feb 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.31.0 30 Jan 2021 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.30.0 12 Dec 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.29.0 24 Oct 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.28.0 26 Sep 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.27.0 31 Aug 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.26.0 25 Jul 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.25.0 27 Jun 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.24.0 24 May 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.23.0 24 Apr 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.22.0 12 Mar 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.21.0 24 Jan 2020 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.20.0 29 Nov 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.19.0 31 Oct 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.18.0 15 Sep 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.17.0 28 Jul 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.16.0 30 Jun 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.15.0 26 May 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.14.0 28 Apr 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.13.0 31 Mar 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.12.0 24 Feb 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.11.0 27 Jan 2019 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.10.0 09 Dec 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.9.0 28 Oct 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.8.0 30 Sep 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.7.0 02 Sep 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.6.0 29 Jul 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.5.0 26 Jun 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.4.0 29 May 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.3.0 29 Apr 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.2.0 26 Mar 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.1.0 25 Feb 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.0.1 21 Jan 2018 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
6.0.0 15 Dec 2017 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.8.1 01 Jul 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.8.0 24 Jun 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.7.0 20 May 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.5.7 29 Apr 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.6.1 29 Apr 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.6.0 22 Apr 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.5.6 19 Apr 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.5.5 27 Mar 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.4.6 27 Mar 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.5.4 25 Feb 2017 H1 M1 non-standard Yes Details →
5.4.5 25 Feb 2017 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.5.3 28 Jan 2017 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.4.4 28 Jan 2017 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.5.2 05 Nov 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.4.3 04 Nov 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.8 04 Nov 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.5.1 27 Jul 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.5.0 25 Jun 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.4.2 29 May 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.7 30 Apr 2016 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.4.1 04 Dec 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.6 04 Dec 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.4.0 04 Oct 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.5 04 Oct 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.4 18 Sep 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.3 25 Jul 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.2 22 May 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.1 20 Apr 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.3.0 01 Apr 2015 H1 M1 — Yes Details →
5.2.3 21 Dec 2014 H1 M1 — Yes Details →

The newest 120 of 123 versions Vulert tracks. Severity counts are the vulnerabilities recorded against that exact release.

02 Disclosure history

How often vulnerabilities are recorded

  • 2022 1
  • 2026 1

Counted by the year Vulert recorded each vulnerability — the same date the table below shows as disclosed. 1 of the 2 were recorded in the last 12 months.

03 Vulnerabilities

Recorded vulnerabilities for net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core

The 2 most severe of 2 vulnerabilities recorded for this package

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Vulnerability Severity Fixed version ↓ Disclosed ↓
CVE-2019-7722: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in PMD 8.1 high 6.0.0 14 May 2022
CVE-2026-28338: PMD Designer Vulnerability in VBHTMLRenderer and YAHTMLRenderer Leading to Stored XSS 6.8 medium 7.22.0 28 Feb 2026

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Questions

About net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core

Is net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core safe to use?

Vulert records 2 vulnerabilities for net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core in Maven: 0 critical, 1 high, 1 medium and 0 low. Every one of them has a published fix, so the practical answer is to run a supported release and keep it patched.

What is net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core's Vulert package health score?

Vulert scores net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core 82/100, which reads as in good shape. The score weighs the vulnerability record (40), maintenance and release cadence (25), adoption from dependents and stars (20) and community signals such as the OpenSSF scorecard and forks (15).

Is the latest version of net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core affected?

No. 7.28.0, the version you would install today, has no vulnerabilities on record against it. Earlier releases do — the version table above lists each release with what affects it.

Which version of net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core should I use?

7.28.0 is the version Vulert recommends for the affected releases. The version table above lists every release with the vulnerabilities recorded against it, so you can confirm the range you actually run.

How many vulnerabilities does net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core have?

2 vulnerabilities are recorded for net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core in the Maven ecosystem: 0 critical, 1 high, 1 medium and 0 low. The ledger on this page lists the same counts next to the date of the most recent disclosure.

How often are new net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core vulnerabilities disclosed?

1 vulnerability was recorded for net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core in the last 12 months, and the oldest entry in this database dates to 14 May 2022. Recency matters more than a lifetime total: it shows how actively new issues are being disclosed for the package you are considering.

Which versions of net.sourceforge.pmd:pmd-core are affected?

Each vulnerability on this page lists the affected version range and the fixed version to move to. Open the vulnerability for the version you actually run — fixes are specific to a release line, not to the package as a whole.

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