CVE-2021-29044: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Membership Request Admin Page

May 24, 2022 (updated May 14, 2025)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Site module’s membership request administration pages in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.3.5, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 97, 7.1 before fix pack 21, 7.2 before fix pack 10 and 7.3 before fix pack 1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_site_my_sites_web_portlet_MySitesPortlet_comments parameter.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-wcr5-3q96-c2gr
github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29044
web.archive.org/web/20210524195727/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/id/120743548

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