CVE-2021-38269

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 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.

Affected products

Liferay Digital Experience Platform: 7.1, 7.1-fix_pack_1, 7.1-fix_pack_10, 7.1-fix_pack_11, 7.1-fix_pack_12, 7.1-fix_pack_13 (+33)
Liferay Portal: from 7.1.0 through 7.3.6; 7.4.0

References

https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-38269-stored-xss-with-gogo-shell-output
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-38269-stored-xss-with-gogo-shell-output

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