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CVE-2008-0178

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0178 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Liferay Portal 4.3.6, specifically within its Enterprise Admin Session Monitoring component. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to inject malicious web scripts or HTML by manipulating the User-Agent HTTP header. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring user interaction (medium complexity) but only resulting in partial integrity impact (e.g., defacement, session hijacking) without affecting confidentiality or availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog and having no active Metasploit or Nuclei exploits, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-31082) exists, indicating public exploit code availability, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay_enterprise_portal:4.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31082 · Jan 31, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0201 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/28742
Vendor Advisory
support.liferay.com / browse/LEP-4736
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/326065
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/27547
ExploitPatch