CVE-2021-29038: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Liferay Portal 7.2.0 through 7.3.5, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before fix pack 1, 7.2 before fix pack 17, and older unsupported versions does not obfuscate password reminder answers on the page, which allows attackers to use man-in-the-middle or shoulder surfing attacks to steal user's password reminder answers.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: before 7.2 (fixed in 7.2); version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only
• Liferay Liferay Portal: up to and including 7.2.1; from 7.3.0, before 7.3.6 (fixed in 7.3.6)

Published 2024-02-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.