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CVE-2023-42497: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the Export for Translation Page

October 17, 2023 (updated August 8, 2025)

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the Export for Translation page before 2.0.86 from Liferay Portal (7.4.3.4 through 7.4.3.85), and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 86 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_translation_web_internal_portlet_TranslationPortlet_redirect parameter.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-w2g3-j73q-7qv7
  • github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
  • liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42497?p_r_p_assetEntryId=122124913&_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fliferay.dev%3A443%2Fportal%2Fsecurity%2Fknown-vulnerabilities%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_r_p_assetEntryId%3D122124913%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42497

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 2.0.86

Fixed versions

  • 2.0.86

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.86 or above.

Impact 6.1 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

maven/com.liferay/com.liferay.translation.web/CVE-2023-42497.yml

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