Medium

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Edit Vocabulary Page

  • Disclosed: 24.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Asset module's edit vocabulary page in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 9, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) _com_liferay_journal_web_portlet_JournalPortlet_name or (2) _com_liferay_document_library_web_portlet_DLAdminPortlet_name parameter.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom >= 7.0.10.fp0, < 7.0.10.fp96, >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp20, >= 7.2.0, < 7.2.10.fp9 7.0.10.fp96, 7.1.10.fp20, 7.2.10.fp9
Java / Kotlin (Maven) com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom >= 7.0.0, <= 7.3.4 no fix

References

CVSS score 5.4/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
Disclosed
24.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-vpvm-3wfw-5f5c - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (159) in the archive
Total entries
159
First → latest
05.2021 10.2025
Without a fix
33
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 18
  • High 25
  • Medium 115
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2021: 1
  2. 2022: 57
  3. 2023: 18
  4. 2024: 40
  5. 2025: 43
  6. 2026: 0
Severity:
  1. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Edit Vocabulary Page this entry
    Medium · 5.4 CVE-2021-33328 >= 7.0.0, <= 7.3.4 no fix
  2. High CVE-2025-62260 >= 7.4.0-ga1, < 7.4.3.100 7.4.3.100
  3. High CVE-2025-62258 >= 7.4.0-ga1, < 7.4.3.108 7.4.3.108
  4. High CVE-2025-43748 >= 7.0.0-a1, < 7.4.3.120-ga120 7.4.3.120-ga120
  5. Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-38002 >= 7.3.2-ga3, < 7.4.3.112-ga112 7.4.3.112-ga112
  6. Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-8980 >= 7.0.0-a1, < 7.4.3.102-GA102 7.4.3.102-GA102
  7. Critical · 9.0 CVE-2023-47795 >= 7.4.3.18, < 7.4.3.102 7.4.3.102
  8. Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-26266 < 7.4.3.14 7.4.3.14
  9. Critical · 9.0 CVE-2023-40191 >= 7.4.3.44, < 7.4.3.98 7.4.3.98
  10. Critical · 9.6 CVE-2023-42496 >= 7.3.3, < 7.4.3.98 7.4.3.98
  11. Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-25147 <= 7.4.1 no fix
  12. Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-25610 < 7.4.3.13 7.4.3.13
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