[SECURITY] CVE-2017-15714 Apache OFBiz BIRT code vulnerability

[taher]

Severity:
Important

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
OFBiz 16.11.01 to 16.11.03

Description:
The BIRT plugin in Apache OFBiz does not escape user input property passed.
This allows for code injection by passing that code through the URL. For
example by appending this code "__format=%27;alert(%27xss%27)" to the URL
an alert window would execute.

Mitigation:
Upgrade to 16.11.04

Credit:
Niels Heinen

References:
http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html#vulnerabilities