CVE-2014-7852

Vulnerabilidad de XSS en JBoss RichFaces, utilizado en JBoss Portal 6.1.1, permite a atacantes remotos inyectar secuencias de comandos web o HTML arbitrarios a través de una URL manipulada, lo cual no se maneja correctamente en un fichero CSS.

It was found that RichFaces accepted arbitrary strings included in a URL and returned them unencoded in a CSS file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against a user running a RichFaces application.

Red Hat JBoss Portal is the open source implementation of the Java EE suite of services and Portal services running atop Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. It comprises a set of offerings for enterprise customers who are looking for pre-configured profiles of JBoss Middleware components that have been tested and certified together to provide an integrated experience. RichFaces is an open source framework that adds Ajax capability into existing JavaServer Faces applications. It was found that RichFaces accepted arbitrary strings included in a URL and returned them unencoded in a CSS file. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform cross-site scripting attacks against a user running a RichFaces application.