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 v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26271
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Liferay
Affected software:
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay DXP
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay DXP
Detailed vulnerability description
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..
How to mitigate CVE-2024-26271
Install update from vendor's website.