CVE-2021-38269
Published: 03 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-38269 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 39.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-24727
Vulnerability details
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…
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inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the output of a Gogo Shell command.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.