# CVE-2021-32602: An improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability (CWE-79) in FortiPortal GUI 6.0.4 and below, 5.3.6 and below, 5

- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:U/RC:C
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-08-18 · Updated: 2024-10-25

## Affected

- Fortinet Fortinet FortiPortal: version range not reported

## Description

An improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability (CWE-79) in FortiPortal GUI 6.0.4 and below, 5.3.6 and below, 5.2.6 and below, 5.1.2 and below, 5.0.3 and below, 4.2.2 and below, 4.1.2 and below, 4.0.4 and below may allow a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform an XSS attack via sending a crafted request with an invalid lang parameter or with an invalid org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver.LOCALE value.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Fortinet, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Fortinet](https://cve.now/tech/fortinet.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-IR-20-066

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