GHSA-wg4x-hf94-fj5v

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    GHSA-wg4x-hf94-fj5v

    Published: 24 May 2022Last Modified: 14 Jul 2025

    Summary: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to email spam via lack of flagging rate

    Details: The Flags module before version 5.0.11 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 packages

    Package

    Name: com.liferay:com.liferay.flags.taglib

    Purl: pkg:maven/com.liferay/com.liferay.flags.taglib

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.0.11

    Affected versions

    1.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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