CVE-2023-42629
CRITICAL9.0EPSS 0.21%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Stored XSS in the Manage Vocabulary Page
Published: 10/17/2023Modified: 8/8/2025
Description
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the manage vocabulary page in Liferay Portal 7.4.2 through 7.4.3.87, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 88 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a Vocabulary's 'description' text field.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/liferay>= 7.4.0, <= 7.4.0 | >= 7.4-update1.0, <= 7.4-update1.0, >= 7.4-update21.0, <= 7.4-update21.0, >= 7.4-update34.0, <= 7.4-update34.0, >= 7.4-update36.0, <= 7.4-update36.0, >= 7.4-update41.0, <= 7.4-update41.0, >= 7.4-update48.0, <= 7.4-update48.0, >= 7.4-update50.0, <= 7.4-update50.0, >= 7.4-update52.0, <= 7.4-update52.0, >= 7.4-update62.0, <= 7.4-update62.0, >= 7.4-update67.0, <= 7.4-update67.0, >= 7.4-update76.0, <= 7.4-update76.0, >= 7.4-update81.0, <= 7.4-update81.0, >= 7.4-update82.0, <= 7.4-update82.0, >= 7.4-update83.0, <= 7.4-update83.0, >= 7.4-update84.0, <= 7.4-update84.0, >= 7.4-update85.0, <= 7.4-update85.0, >= 7.4-update86.0, <= 7.4-update86.0
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.webfrom 0, < 5.0.87
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.4.0, < 7.4.13.u88
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42629
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/2e02110747dd5cccb978623545bfa1f3ad0a5602
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42629
- WEBhttps://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilities-in-liferay-portal
- WEBhttps://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilities-in-liferay-portal/