What is CVE-2021-38267?

CVE-2021-38267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2021-38267?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

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 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (44.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.3
Liferay Liferay_portal
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Product, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-38267?: CVE-2021-38267 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2021-38267?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.