CVE-2021-33320: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Flags module in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, does not limit the rate at which content can be flagged as inappropriate, which allows remote authenticated users to spam the site administrator with emails

Affected products

  • Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
  • Liferay Liferay Portal: before 7.3.1 (fixed in 7.3.1)

Published 2021-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.