CVE-2021-33338: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Layout module in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.3.2, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 19, and 7.2 before fix pack 6, exposes the CSRF token in URLs, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain the token and conduct Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks via the p_auth parameter.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Liferay Liferay Portal: from 7.1.0, up to and including 7.3.2

Published 2021-08-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.