CVE-2021-38266: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Portal Security module in Liferay Portal 7.2.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 90, 7.1 before fix pack 17 and 7.2 before fix pack 5 does not correctly import users from LDAP, which allows remote attackers to prevent a legitimate user from authenticating by attempting to sign in as a user that exist in LDAP.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Liferay Liferay Portal: up to and including 7.2.1

Published 2022-03-02. Last modified 2026-07-09.