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CVE-2016-3971

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lucene_search.jsp in dotCMS before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter to c/portal/layout.

Affected products

• dotCMS core: through 3.5

References

• http://dotcms.com/security/SI-33
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/37
• http://dotcms.com/security/SI-33
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/37

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