Liferay Portal 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-2023-40191
CVE-2023-42496
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 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.


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