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TITLE:
Liferay Portal "p_p_id" Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38088

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38088/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Liferay Portal, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed via the "p_p_id" parameter is not properly sanitised
before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious
data is viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 5.2.3 and 5.1.2.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability will reportedly be fixed in version 5.3.0 expected
to be released on 2010-02-12.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
US-CERT credits Tomasz Kuczynski.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-6034

OTHER REFERENCES:
US-CERT VU#750796:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/750796

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