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Medium · 6.1 Public exploit CVE-2016-3670 EUVD-2016-4695GHSA-hq29-vqg6-pjpw

Liferay Portal Vulnerable to XSS in Profile Search Functionality

Published Jun 13, 2016 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in users.jsp in the Profile Search functionality in Liferay before 7.0.0 CE RC1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the FirstName field.

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web < 1.0.3 1.0.3 GHSA-hq29-vqg6-pjpw

References