What is CVE-2021-38269?

CVE-2021-38269 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-2021-38269?

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

XSS in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2021-38269

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.

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 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Liferay Liferay_portal — versions 7.4.0
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-2021-38269?: CVE-2021-38269 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-2021-38269?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.