Known Vulnerabilities

Liferay Portal 7.0.0 User credentials may appear in the logs if the user authenticates using basic authentication. Severity 2

Insufficient permission checking in Message Board and Comments allows unauthorized users to edit and/or delete other user's messages or comments. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.0 This issue was...

Users without the necessary permssion can view page configuration information the via crafted URLs. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.0 This issue was reported by Spyridon Chatzimichail

When JAAS is enabled, ThreadLocal may leak variables to other processes. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.3

Passwords are visible to administrators in the Server Administration section of the Control Panel. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.3

The password history checking functionality in a password policy can be circumvented via forget password. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.3

Open redirect vulnerability in Search application allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.3

Liferay Portal 7.0.3 March 2020 source patch for Liferay Portal 6.2.5. Details for working with source patches can be found on the Patching Liferay Portal page. Apache Commons FileUpload, as used...

Unsanitized data in SessionClicks allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) via crafted URLs. The denial-of-service is limited to users who have clicked on the crafted URL and may...

This issue was reported by Jacob Baines TunnelServlet allows remote code execution by unauthenticated users. Severity 1 Liferay Portal 7.0.3

In Liferay Portal 7.0.1 and earlier, PDFBox does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF....

Editing a blog entry may reset the blog entry's permission to the default permission. This may allow a user without the necessary permission to view a blog entry. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.2

Liferay Portal 7.0.2 The search result in the Search portlet may include search results which a user does not have permission to view. Severity 2

By default, Liferay Portal gives every registered user the Power User role. When a signed in user has the Power User role, the user will have their own site and permissions to manage the site...

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tokens are persisted in the database and may make it easier for an attacker to launch a CSRF attack. Severity 2 Liferay Portal 7.0.1

Liferay Portal 7.0.1 An open redirect vulnerability exists with Facebook authentication. An attacker can potentially exploit this security vulnerability to redirect users to a different site....

Velocity and FreeMarker templates are vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation. Severity 1 Note that there are two binary patches which fix this issue, as well as all...

Password policies can be configured to lock out a user after a specified number of failed login attempts. However, if a user is using digest authentication, this lock out can be circumvented....

Note that there are two binary patches which fix this issue, as well as all previous CST fixes for this release. You only need to apply one of these, not both. Binary Patch 1: The "complete" patch...

An open redirect vulnerability exists may be possible with some specially constructed domain names. An attacker can potentially exploit this security vulnerability to redirect users to a different...

A vulnerability known as "Java Deserialization Vulnerability" was discovered and Liferay Portal is potential vulnerable in the following locations: TunnelServlet: Spring-Remoting services By...

Note that there are two binary patches which fix this issue, as well as all previous CST fixes for this release. You only need to apply one of these, not both. Binary Patch 1: The "complete" patch...

This ticket covers various permission issues in Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA6 that may result in a user having permission the user should not have. Severity 2 Note that there are two binary patches...

XSL Content portlet can be configured with any XML/XSL. The XSL Content portlet allows anyone who has permission to configure the portlet to specify any XML/XSL file. By creating the appropriate...

Flash does not strictly honor the same-origin policy. As a result, if an attacker is able to upload a malicious flash file to portal, the flash file can be used to circumvent the portal's CSRF...

The version of openid4java.jar that is currently used by the portal vulnerable to XXE attack. Severity 2 Note that there are two binary patches which fix this issue, as well as all previous CST...

Note that there are two binary patches which fix this issue, as well as all previous CST fixes for this release. You only need to apply one of these, not both. Binary Patch 1: The "complete" patch...

The MailEngine API is vulnerable to email header injection. This issue only affects users who are calling the MailEngine directly. Severity 3 Note that there are two binary patches which fix this...

This ticket covers various permission issues in Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3 that may result in a user having permission the user should not have. Severity 2 Note that there are two binary patches...

Note that there are two binary patches which fix this issue, as well as all previous CST fixes for this release. You only need to apply one of these, not both. Binary Patch 1: The "complete" patch...

The default GenericPortlet implementation is vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and information leak (CVE-2015-1926). As a part of this fix, the JSR 286 Specification JAR (portlet.jar)...

This ticket covers various cross-site scripting (XSS) issues in Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3 that are addressed by the CST patch. LPS-55962 Incorrect escaping in liferay-ui:app-view-search-entry...

LPS-44182 Reflected XSS in edit layout LPS-44196 Stored XSS in Asset Publisher and WCM Display portlets via OpenOffice conversion file extensions LPS-44197 Reflected XSS in *Directory portlets...

This issue was reported by Tomas Polesovsky A zero-day security vulnerability in the ActionForms object in Struts 1.x allows remote attackers to manipulate the class loader. In some environments,...

6.2.1-ce-ga2-security-2.0 patch (source) A zero-day security vulnerability in the ActionForms object in Struts 1.x allows remote attackers to manipulate the class loader. In some environments, this...

LPS-43278 XSS in Message Boards LPS-43476 Stored XSS in Shopping portlet LPS-43653 Various XSS in Layouts admin portlet LPS-43660 Stored XSS in QuickNote LPS-42795 XSS issue in shopping portlet ...

A security vulnerability in the Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by manipulating the request header. In addition to patching Liferay...

This issue was reported by Christian Schneider The portal is vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) processing in 6.2.2. This can lead to disclosure of confidential data or a denial-of-service...

Note that there are two binary patches which fix both LPS-51061 (this report) and LPS-51094, as well as all previous CST fixes for this release. You only need to apply one of these, not both....

The forgot password feature in the Sign In portlet allows e-mail address in the portal to be enumerated. Workaround: Disable forgot password emails Severity 3 Note that there are two binary patches...