CVE-2019-16147 Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via a Journal Article Title

What is CVE-2019-16147?

CVE-2019-16147 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 9 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Liferay Portal through 7.2.0 GA1 allows XSS via a journal article title to journal_article/page.jsp in journal/journal-taglib.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-16147?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.journal.taglib. It affects 1 product.

Products include Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2019-16147?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.journal.taglib to 3.0.4 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2019-16147 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-16147 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Liferay Portal

• CVE-2020-7961 Liferay Portal Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-33990 File upload in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16891 Liferay Portal Allows RCE via Deserialization of a JSON Payload Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-47797 Liferay Portal XSS with `p_l_back_url_title` on edit content page Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-13445 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

All Liferay Liferay Portal vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m2gx-7pvx-3gvg.