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Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 21, 2024

Package

maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2023.Q3, < 2023.Q3.5
>= 7.4.13.u4, <= 7.4.13.u92

Patched versions

2023.Q3.5
maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven)
>= 7.4.3.8, <= 7.4.3.97
None

Description

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Language Override edit screen in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.8 through 7.4.3.97, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3 before patch 5, and 7.4 update 4 through 92 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_portal_language_override_web_internal_portlet_PLOPortlet_key parameter.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 21, 2024
Reviewed Feb 21, 2024
Last updated Feb 21, 2024

Severity

Critical
9.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-42498

GHSA ID

GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93

Source code

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