CVE-2021-38269
MEDIUM5.4EPSS 0.18%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in the Gogo Shell module
Published: 3/4/2022Modified: 7/14/2025
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Gogo Shell module in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.3.6 and 7.4.0, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 23, 7.2 before fix pack 13, and 7.3 before fix pack 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the output of a Gogo Shell command.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/liferay>= 7.1.0, <= 7.1.0, >= 7.2.0, <= 7.2.0, >= 7.3.0, <= 7.3.0 | >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.1-fix.0, <= 7.1-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.2-fix.0, <= 7.2-fix.0, >= 7.3-fix.0, <= 7.3-fix.0
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.gogo.shell.webfrom 0, < 5.0.2
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp23
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-2021-38269
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttp://liferay.com
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/0b28a0d0ca7592660c66c15aa14fe709b7c0c141
- WEBhttps://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17203
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2021-38269-stored-xss-with-gogo-shell-output?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121611883&_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%3D121611883%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-2021-38269-stored-xss-with-gogo-shell-output