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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.6

CVE-2023-42496 json

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting

published 2024-02-21 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqc , EUVD-2024-0515

cvss
9.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the add assignees to a role page in Liferay Portal 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.97, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3 before patch 6, 7.4 GA through update 92, and 7.3 before update 34 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_roles_admin_web_portlet_RolesAdminPortlet_tabs2 parameter.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.4.3.98
  • maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.3.10.u34, 2023.Q3.6
  • liferay liferay_portal 7.4.3.98

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 9.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
>=7.3.3, <7.4.3.98
7.4.3.98
maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
>=7.4.10.ep1, <=7.4.13.u92
>=7.3.10.ep3, <7.3.10.u34
>=2023.Q3, <2023.Q3.6
7.3.10.u34
2023.Q3.6

Affected products

  • Liferay Portal
  • Liferay DXP

Classification

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

References

Sources

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