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Vulnerability Note VU#732449

Liferay Portal User Profile Greeting stored XSS

Overview

Liferay Portal fails to properly validate the User Profile "Greeting" value, which can allow script to execute when a user logs into the portal.

I. Description

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal solution that uses Java technologies. The User Profile "Greeting" value of Liferay Portal fails to properly sanitize input.

II. Impact

An authenticated user may be able to inject script into the "Greeting" for the portal.

III. Solution

Apply an update

This issue is addressed in Liferay versions 4.4.0 and 4.3.7, as specified in Liferay support document LEP-4738.

Systems Affected

VendorStatusDate Updated
Liferay, Inc.Vulnerable31-Jan-2008

References


http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4738

Credit

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public01/10/2008
Date First Published01/31/2008 02:50:36 PM
Date Last Updated01/31/2008
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2008-0180
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric0.11
Document Revision1

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