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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Liferay Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') Vulnerability (CVE-2020-13445)

Description

In Liferay Portal before 7.3.2 and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 92, 7.1 before fix pack 18, and 7.2 before fix pack 6, the template API does not restrict user access to sensitive objects, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via crafted FreeMarker and Velocity templates.

Remediation

References

CVE-2020-13445

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2020-13445 CWE-138

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities

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