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CVE-2020-7934 LifeRay Portal

Affected softwareLifeRay Portal
Severity5.4 Medium CVSS 3.1 2 scores
Fixed in7.3.0
WeaknessCross-site scripting (CWE-79)
Published28 Jan 2020
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

In LifeRay Portal CE 7.1.0 through 7.2.1 GA2, 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). This issue was fixed in Liferay Portal CE version 7.3.0 GA1.

Exploitation status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue lists ready-to-run exploit code for this CVE.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC 2 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Exploit-DB, GitHub PoC; first seen 2019-10-17.
  • EPSS 4.5% chance in 30 days
IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
GitHub PoC Authenticated Stored XSS in LifeRay 7.2.0 GA1 via MyAccountPortlet executed by Search Results 6 2019-10-17
Exploit-DB LifeRay 7.2.1 GA2 - Stored XSS 2020-11-23

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Inferred
  • Record active
Decided by The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read
Finding This CVE affects an open-source Java library published on Maven Central (Maven packages: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom), so it is squarely in ARMR's territory and the source needed to understand the defect is public. That makes it a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: the diff between the affected and fixed versions has not been read, and a closer look may find no hook point ARMR can act on.

CVSS

5.4 MEDIUM v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N NVD Primary published
CVSS 2.0 3.5 none AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.1.0 7.3.0 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 2 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
osv com.liferay.portal release.portal.bom generic ≥ 7.1.0 and < 7.3.0
nvd liferay liferay portal generic ≥ 7.1.0 and ≤ 7.2.1

References

URLTags
https://github.com/3ndG4me/liferay-xss-7.2.1GA2-poc-report-CVE-2020-7934 WEB
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal PACKAGE
https://web.archive.org/web/20200808034429/https://semanticbits.com/liferay-portal-authenticated-xss-disclosure WEB
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160168/LifeRay-7.2.1-GA2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html WEB
https://semanticbits.com/liferay-portal-authenticated-xss-disclosure/ Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published2020-01-28By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.