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CVE-2016-3670 Liferay Portal

Affected softwareLiferay Portal
Severity6.1 Medium CVSS 3.0 2 scores
Fixed in1.0.3
WeaknessCross-site scripting (CWE-79)
Published13 Jun 2016
Updated17 Jun 2026

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.

Exploitation status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue lists ready-to-run exploit code for this CVE.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Exploit-DB; first seen 2016-06-02.
  • EPSS 2.5% chance in 30 days
IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
Exploit-DB Liferay CE < 6.2 CE GA6 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting 2016-06-02

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Inferred
  • Record active
Decided by The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read
Finding This CVE affects an open-source Java library published on Maven Central (Maven packages: com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web), so it is squarely in ARMR's territory and the source needed to understand the defect is public. That makes it a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: the diff between the affected and fixed versions has not been read, and a closer look may find no hook point ARMR can act on.

CVSS

6.1 MEDIUM v3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.0 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N NVD Primary published
CVSS 2.0 4.3 none AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web 0 1.0.3 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 2 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
osv com.liferay com.liferay.portal.search.web generic < 1.0.3
nvd liferay liferay portal generic ≤ 6.2

References

URLTags
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/b7ce087039f3b753f36f558df5faefac4ad4b160 WEB
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal PACKAGE
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-62387 WEB
https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/cve-2016-3670 WEB
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39880 WEB
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137279/Liferay-CE-Stored-Cross-Site-Scripting.html WEB
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/5 WEB
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036083 WEB
https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/cve-2016-3670/ Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39880/ Exploit

Timeline

Published2016-06-13By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.