liferay/liferay-portal · Security
Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in MyAccountPortlet
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-f99h-h678-fgg4
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-7934
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
In LifeRay Portal CE 7.1.0 through 7.2.1, the First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name fields for user accounts in MyAccountPortlet are all vulnerable to a persistent XSS issue. Any user can modify these fields with a particular XSS payload, and it will be stored in the database. The payload will then be rendered when a user utilizes the search feature to search for other users (i.e., if a user with modified fields occurs in the search results).
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7934 ↗
- https://github.com/3ndG4me/liferay-xss-7.2.1GA2-poc-report-CVE-2020-7934 ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160168/LifeRay-7.2.1-GA2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200808034429/https://semanticbits.com/liferay-portal-authenticated-xss-disclosure ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f99h-h678-fgg4 ↗