High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Jan 28, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-28884

Description

Liferay Portal Server tested on 7.3.5 GA6, 7.2.0 GA1 is affected by OS Command Injection. An administrator user can inject Groovy script to execute any OS command on the Liferay Portal Sever. NOTE: The developer disputes this as a vulnerability since it is a feature for administrators to run groovy scripts and therefore not a design flaw.

Affected products

Liferay/Liferay Portal Serverdescription
Liferay/Liferay Portal Serverllm-fuzzy
Range: 7.3.5 GA6, 7.2.0 GA1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

learn.liferay.com/dxp/latest/en/system-administration/using-the-script-engine/running-scripts-from-the-script-console.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
medium.com/%40tranpdanh/some-way-to-execute-os-command-in-liferay-portal-84498bde18d3nvd

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