Check Point Advisories

Liferay Portal User Account Stored Cross Site Scripting (CVE-2016-3670)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2016-0514
Date Published: 22 Jun 2016
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Thursday 14 July, 2016
Source: Liferay
Industry Reference:CVE-2016-3670
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Liferay Liferay Portal prior to 7.0.0 CE RC1
Vulnerability Description A persistent XSS vulnerability exists in the user account creation process in Liferay Portal. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of the firstName, middleName and lastName parameters. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to inject arbitrary script code into a user profile.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Liferay Portal User Account Stored Cross Site Scripting protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Liferay Portal User Account Stored Cross Site Scripting

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