Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0178

Title: Liferay Liferay Enterprise Portal Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-0178

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Feb 05, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.01%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0178: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Enterprise Admin Session Monitoring component in Liferay Portal 4.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the User-Agent HTTP header.

Impacted Vendors

liferay 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/28742 http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4736 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326065 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27547 http://secunia.com/advisories/28742 http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4736 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326065 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27547

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0178 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31082

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 05, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.