GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-r39x-3qq4-gxmr Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in edit blog entry page
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-38267
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.js.web
- 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
- 2025-07-15
Affected packages
• Maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom: >= 7.3.2, < 7.3.7-ga8 → fixed in 7.3.7-ga8
• Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom: >= 7.3.0, < 7.3.10.fp2 → fixed in 7.3.10.fp2
• Maven com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.js.web: < 5.0.0 → fixed in 5.0.0
Description
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.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-38267 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… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38267 advisory
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/c3ad74d0664072c43da4d30a1d19be8cec3aa8bc web
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal package
- https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17212 web
- https://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 web