Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.3.6 - User-Agent HTTP Header Cross-Site Scripting

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27547/info

Liferay Enterprise Portal is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

This issue affects Liferay Enterprise Portal 4.3.6.

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)<<script>script>alert(&#039;XSS !!!&#039;)<</script>/script>