CVE-2016-3971: dotCMS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 dotCMS: up to and including 3.5

Published 2016-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.