Cross-site request forgery in Liferay Enterprise Portal and Liferay DXP - CVE-2024-26271
Published: October 23, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99284
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26271
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin in the My Account widget. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website and change user passwords, shut down the server, execute arbitrary code in the scripting console, and perform other administrative actions via the _com_liferay_my_account_web_portlet_MyAccountPortlet_backURL parameter..
Affected software
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay DXP
Liferay DXP
How to mitigate CVE-2024-26271
Install update from vendor's website.
Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.112 ga112
Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 7.3 Update 36, 2023.Q3.6, 2023.Q4.3, 2024.Q1.1
Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 7.3 Update 36, 2023.Q3.6, 2023.Q4.3, 2024.Q1.1