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CVE-2021-38267

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-03-03 · updated 2026-07-09
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: before 7.3; 7.3, 7.3-fix_pack_1 — fixed in 7.3
• Liferay Portal: from 7.3.2 through 7.3.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-38267-stored-xss-with-title-and-subtitle-of-blog-entry
• https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-38267-stored-xss-with-title-and-subtitle-of-blog-entry

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