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CVE-2016-3670

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3670 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Liferay Portal versions prior to 7.0.0 CE RC1. Specifically, the Profile Search functionality in users.jsp is susceptible to arbitrary web script or HTML injection via the FirstName field. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 6.1, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially impacting confidentiality and integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay_portal:*:ga6:*:*:community_edition:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-39880 · Jun 2, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0229 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.webFixed in: 1.0.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-hq29-vqg6-pjpwmedium

Liferay Portal Vulnerable to XSS in Profile Search Functionality

May 17, 2022

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/137279/Liferay-CE-Stored-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
Exploit
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/5
Exploit
issues.liferay.com / browse/LPS-62387
Vendor Advisory
labs.integrity.pt / advisories/cve-2016-3670
Exploit
exploit-db.com / exploits/39880
Exploit
securitytracker.com / id/1036083