CVE-2016-3670
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.1
Description
Liferay Portal Vulnerable to XSS in Profile Search Functionality
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Liferay CE < 6.2 CE GA6 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web | <1.0.3 | 1.0.3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| liferay | liferay_portal | {"endIncluding":"6.2"} | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137279/Liferay-CE-Stored-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/5
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036083
- https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-62387
- https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/cve-2016-3670/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39880/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3670
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/b7ce087039f3b753f36f558df5faefac4ad4b160
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/cve-2016-3670
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39880
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.