Cross-site scripting in Liferay DXP and Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2024-26269
Published: February 21, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU86677
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26269
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the Frontend JS module's portlet.js within the anchor (hash) part of a URL. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Liferay DXP
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Liferay Enterprise Portal
How to mitigate CVE-2024-26269
Install update from vendor's website.
Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 7.2 fix pack 20, 7.3 update 11, 7.4 update 38
Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.38 ga38
Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.38 ga38