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SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.layout.admin.web (GHSA-3x83-whxw-pvmg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428393

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Asset module in Liferay Portal 7.3.4 through 7.3.6 allow
 remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML when creating a collection page via the
 _com_liferay_asset_list_web_portlet_AssetListPortlet_title parameter. (CVE-2021-38265)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3x83-whxw-pvmg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428393

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/15/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38265

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-38265

cwe: CWE-79