Cross-site scripting in Liferay DXP and Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2023-42496

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Cross-site scripting in Liferay DXP and Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2023-42496

Published: February 21, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86681
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-2023-42496
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 add assignees to a role page within the "_com_liferay_roles_admin_web_portlet_RolesAdminPortlet_tabs2" parameter. 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

How to mitigate CVE-2023-42496

Install update from vendor's website.

Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 7.3 update 34, 2023.Q3.6
Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.98 ga98

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