CVE-2021-33336: Liferay Portal Journal Module and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

May 24, 2022 (updated May 28, 2025)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Journal module’s add article menu in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.3.3, and Liferay DXP 7.1 fix pack 18, and 7.2 fix pack 5 through 7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_journal_web_portlet_JournalPortlet_name parameter.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-fvg6-9r88-7w85
github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17078
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33336
portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2021-33336-stored-xss-with-structure-name

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