Liferay Cross Site Scripting Flaw

[Giri, Sandeep]

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 <script>history.go(-1)</script>
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

[michael young]

In-Reply-To: <A2A3422FEEB89D4DBFDF7692B7C737BACED1@mshyd2.hyd.de shaw.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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>From: "Giri, Sandeep" <giris@deshaw.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
>