bugtraq - Re: Liferay Cross Site Scripting Flaw

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Date: 25 Nov 2004 16:27:53 -0000
From: michael young <myoung@...eray.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Liferay Cross Site Scripting Flaw


In-Reply-To: <A2A3422FEEB89D4DBFDF7692B7C737BACED1@...yd2.hyd.deshaw.com>

The scripting flaw as been fixed as of version 2.2.0 release 10/1/2004. We urge all parties to upgrade their deployments. 

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>Subject: Liferay Cross Site Scripting Flaw
>Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:00:27 +0530
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>From: "Giri, Sandeep" <giris@...haw.com>
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>Advisory Name: Liferay Cross Site Scripting flaw
> Release Date: 05/22/2004
>  Application: Liferay (www.liferay.com)
>       Author: Sandeep Giri
>Vendor Status: Notified ( 4 months ago)
>
>Overview:
>(Taken from http://www.liferay.com/products/index.jsp)
>
>Liferay Enterprise Portal was designed to:
>
>Provide organizations with a single sign-on web interface for email,
>document=20
>management, message board, and other useful communication tools.
>Multiple=20
>authentication schemes (LDAP or SQL) are pooled together so users don't
>have=20
>to remember a different login and password for every section of the
>portal.
>...
>
>Details:
>
>Liferay is prone to cross site scripting flaw. Almost all the fields
>that takes=20
>input from one user and are displayed on another user's screen can be
>tricked to=20
>execute java script code.
>
>Test:
>Add a message with subject &lt;script&gt;history.go(-1)&lt;/script&gt;
>Now, no user can see message board.
>
>Vendor Response:
>Vendor was notified on 14/01/2004. No fix have been released yet.
>
>
>Recommendation:
>
>While saving or displaying the data:
>replace &,<,> etc with &amp;,&lt; and &gt; respectively.
>
>
>Regards,
>Sandeep Giri
>