CVE-2021-36737 (GCVE-0-2021-36737)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-06 08:50 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:01
VLAI
Title
XSS in V3 Demo Portlet
Summary
The input fields of the Apache Pluto UrlTestPortlet are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Users should migrate to version 3.1.1 of the v3-demo-portlet.war artifact
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Portals Affected: org.apache.portals.pluto:PortletV3Demo 3.0.0
Affected: org.apache.portals.pluto:PortletV3Demo 3.0.1
Affected: org.apache.portals.pluto.demo:v3-demo-portlet 3.1.0
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Credits
Thanks to Dhiraj Mishra for reporting.
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