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TITLE:
Liferay Portal "emailAddress" Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27821

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Liferay Portal 4.x
https://secunia.com/product/16577/

DESCRIPTION:
Joshua Morin has reported a vulnerability in Liferay Portal, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "emailAddress" parameter in c/portal/login is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.3.1. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joshua Morin

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