CVE-2021-29053 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Multiple SQL Injections

What is CVE-2021-29053?

CVE-2021-29053 is a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 17 May 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Liferay Portal 7.3.5 and Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 1 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the classPKField parameter to (1) CommerceChannelRelFinder.countByC_C, or (2) CommerceChannelRelFinder.findByC_C.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-29053?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Dxp, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2021-29053?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to 7.3.10.fp1 or later.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2021-29053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Liferay Portal

• CVE-2022-42120 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to SQL Injection via the Fragment Module Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-42122 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to SQL Injection via Friendly URL Module Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-35030 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF via the Layout Module High 8.8
• CVE-2021-33321 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP insecure default configuration High 7.5
• CVE-2021-29047 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Fails to Invalidate CAPTCHA Answers After Use High 7.5

All Liferay Liferay Portal vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-f9wj-c5pc-g9rh.