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SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.server.admin.web (GHSA-ffmm-5ww2-g3q4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428410

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Server module's script console in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 and
 earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 101, 7.1 before fix pack 20 and 7.2 before fix pack 10 allows
 remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the output of a script. (CVE-2021-38263)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ffmm-5ww2-g3q4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428410

Version: Revision 1.3

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-38263

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2021-38263

cwe: CWE-79