CVE-2023-42496: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting

February 21, 2024 (updated January 28, 2025)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqc
github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42496

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