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Liferay Portal User Profile Greeting stored XSS

Vulnerability Note VU#732449

Original Release Date: 2008-01-31 | Last Revised: 2008-01-31

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.

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.

Impact

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

Solution

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

Vendor Information

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Liferay, Inc. Affected

Updated:  January 31, 2008

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

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

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tomasz Kuczynski for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2008-0180
Severity Metric: 0.11
Date Public: 2008-01-10
Date First Published: 2008-01-31
Date Last Updated: 2008-01-31 19:51 UTC
Document Revision: 1

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