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Vulnerability details: VCID-e42x-p4br-vyfj
Vulnerability ID VCID-e42x-p4br-vyfj
Aliases CVE-2021-38269
GHSA-vw6g-gh6c-8qwp
Summary Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in the Gogo Shell module Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Gogo Shell module before 5.0.2 from 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 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the output of a Gogo Shell command.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00178 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-38269
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vw6g-gh6c-8qwp
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-38269
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/0b28a0d0ca7592660c66c15aa14fe709b7c0c141
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17203
CVE-2021-38269 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38269
GHSA-vw6g-gh6c-8qwp https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vw6g-gh6c-8qwp
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.39092
EPSS Score 0.00178
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T20:57:18.371722+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2021-38269.yml 38.6.0