GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-fvg6-9r88-7w85 Liferay Portal Journal Module and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-33336
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2025-05-28
Affected packages
• Maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom: >= 7.3.0, < 7.3.4 → fixed in 7.3.4
• Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom: >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp18 → fixed in 7.1.10.fp18
• Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom: >= 7.2.10.fp5, < 7.2.10.fp7 → fixed in 7.2.10.fp7
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Journal module's add article menu in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.3.3, and Liferay DXP 7.1 fix pack 18, and 7.2 fix pack 5 through 7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_journal_web_portlet_JournalPortlet_name parameter.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-33336 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Journal module's add article menu in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.3.3, and Liferay DXP… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33336 advisory
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal package
- https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17078 web
- https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-33336-stored-xss-with-structure-name web