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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2023-33938 json

Cross-site scripting in Liferay Portal

published 2023-05-24 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-liferay-2023-33938 , EUVD-2023-1643 , GHSA-wvhw-5m89-64gv

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the App Builder module's custom object details page in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.4.0, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 14 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into an App Builder custom object's `Name` field.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.4.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
>=7.3.0, <7.4.1
7.4.1
bitnami liferay
>=7.3.0, <=7.3.0
>=7.3-fix.0, <=7.3-fix.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Liferay Portal
  • Liferay DXP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.