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CVE-2021-38267: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in edit blog entry page

March 4, 2022 (updated July 15, 2025)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Blogs module’s edit blog entry page in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.3.6, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_blogs_web_portlet_BlogsAdminPortlet_title and _com_liferay_blogs_web_portlet_BlogsAdminPortlet_subtitle parameter.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-r39x-3qq4-gxmr
  • github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
  • github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/c3ad74d0664072c43da4d30a1d19be8cec3aa8bc
  • liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17212
  • liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2021-38267-stored-xss-with-title-and-subtitle-of-blog-entry?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121611935&_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fliferay.dev%3A443%2Fportal%2Fsecurity%2Fknown-vulnerabilities%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_r_p_assetEntryId%3D121611935%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38267

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 7.3.0 before 7.3.10.fp2

Fixed versions

  • 7.3.10.fp2

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.3.10.fp2 or above.

Impact 5.4 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2021-38267.yml

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