Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in edit blog entry page
Date: 2022-03
Affected: maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.js.web, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2021-38267
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 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.


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