CVE-2021-38265
MEDIUM5.4EPSS 0.18%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS)
Published: 3/4/2022Modified: 7/14/2025
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Asset module in Liferay Portal 7.3.4 through 7.3.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML when creating a collection page via the _com_liferay_asset_list_web_portlet_AssetListPortlet_title parameter.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/liferayfrom 0, < 7.3.0
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.layout.admin.webfrom 0, < 5.0.0
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomfrom 0, <= 7.3
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 (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38265
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttp://liferay.com
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/ac8267406785c2e70f4b15aadd604fbe7fb4451b
- WEBhttps://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17229
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2021-38265-stored-xss-with-collection-name?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121611955&_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%3D121611955%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
- WEBhttps://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-38265-stored-xss-with-collection-name