Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
Date: 2024-02
Affected: maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Critical
CVE: CVE-2023-42498
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 9.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Language Override edit screen in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.8 through 7.4.3.97, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3 before patch 5, and 7.4 update 4 through 92 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the `_com_liferay_portal_language_override_web_internal_portlet_PLOPortlet_key` parameter.


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