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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2023-33943 json

Cross-site scripting in Liferay Portal

published 2023-05-24 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-liferay-2023-33943 , EUVD-2023-1595 , GHSA-p9xg-9378-cqp7

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Account module in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.21 through 7.4.3.62, and Liferay DXP 7.4 update 21 through 62 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a user's (1) First Name, (2) Middle Name, (3) Last Name, or (4) Job Title text field.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.4.3.63

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
>=7.4.3.21, <7.4.3.63
7.4.3.63
bitnami liferay
>=7.4-update21.0, <=7.4-update21.0
>=7.4-update62.0, <=7.4-update62.0
 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.