Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0179

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

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0179.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Feb 05, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.21%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0179: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in service/impl/UserLocalServiceImpl.java in Liferay Portal 4.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the User-Agent HTTP header, which is used when composing Forgot Password e-mail messages in HTML format.

Impacted Vendors

liferay 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/28742 http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4737 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/888209 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27550 http://secunia.com/advisories/28742 http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4737 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/888209 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27550

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0179 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.