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CVE-2019-16147

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Liferay Portal through 7.2.0 GA1 allows XSS via a journal article title to journal_article/page.jsp in journal/journal-taglib.

Affected products

• Liferay Portal: before 7.2.0; 7.2.0-alpha1, 7.2.0-beta1, 7.2.0-beta2, 7.2.0-beta3, 7.2.0-ga1, 7.2.0-milestone2 (+2) — fixed in 7.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Liferay Portal 7.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/7e063aed70f947a92bb43a4471e0c4e650fe8f7f
• https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/7e063aed70f947a92bb43a4471e0c4e650fe8f7f

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