Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33337

Medium

Published: 04 August 2021

Published
04 August 2021
Modified
13 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.5th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33337 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Document Library module's add document menu in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script…

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or HTML via the _com_liferay_document_library_web_portlet_DLAdminPortlet_name parameter.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

liferay
digital experience platform
7.1, 7.2
liferay
liferay portal
7.3.0 — 7.3.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References