Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-3971
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 07:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-3971
Complete source record
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