CVE-2020-7934
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.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 4.5%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 4.46% probability · 91th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 23 November 2020
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- liferay/liferay portal
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 4.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160168/LifeRay-7.2.1-GA2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- https://github.com/3ndG4me/liferay-xss-7.2.1GA2-poc-report-CVE-2020-7934
- https://semanticbits.com/liferay-portal-authenticated-xss-disclosure/Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160168/LifeRay-7.2.1-GA2-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- https://github.com/3ndG4me/liferay-xss-7.2.1GA2-poc-report-CVE-2020-7934
- https://semanticbits.com/liferay-portal-authenticated-xss-disclosure/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.