Stored cross-site scripting in Liferay Enterprise Portal and Liferay DXP - CVE-2024-25602

 

Stored cross-site scripting in Liferay Enterprise Portal and Liferay DXP - CVE-2024-25602

Published: February 21, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86685
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25602
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 Users Admin module's edit user page within the organization’s "Name" text field. A remote user can inject 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 Enterprise Portal
Liferay DXP

How to mitigate CVE-2024-25602

Install update from vendor's website.

Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.4 ga4
Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 7.2 fix pack 17, 7.3 service pack 3

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