Liferay Portal Journal Module and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2021-33336
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

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.


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