Liferay Enterprise Portal User-Agent HTTP Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:27547

Info

Liferay Enterprise Portal User-Agent HTTP Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 27547
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-0178
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 31 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 31 2008 10:47PM
Credit: Tomasz Kuczynski is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.3.6
Not Vulnerable: Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.4
Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.3.7

Discussion

Liferay Enterprise Portal User-Agent HTTP Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Liferay Enterprise Portal is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

This issue affects Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.3.6.

Exploit / POC

Liferay Enterprise Portal User-Agent HTTP Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim into following a malicious URI.

The following example HTTP header is provided:

Solution / Fix

Liferay Enterprise Portal User-Agent HTTP Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released updates to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.3.6

References

Liferay Enterprise Portal User-Agent HTTP Header Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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