CVE-2021-33336

MEDIUM5.4EPSS 0.17%

Liferay Portal Journal Module and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published: 5/24/2022Modified: 5/28/2025

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.

Affected packages (2)

Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp18
Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom>= 7.3.0, < 7.3.4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References (4)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33336
PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
WEBhttps://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17078
WEBhttps://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-33336-stored-xss-with-structure-name