🛡️ CVE-2021-33332 — release.dxp.bom

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Portlet Configuration module in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.3.2, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 19, and 7.2 before fix pack 7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_portlet_configuration_css_web_portlet_PortletConfigurationCSSPortlet_portletResource parameter.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-33332 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2021-33332 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (from 7.2.0 up to 7.2.10.fp7)
  • com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (from 7.1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 28 May 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
issues.liferay.com (Web)
portal.liferay.dev (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-05-28
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.2.0 7.2.10.fp7
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.1.0 —

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