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CVE-2023-42496

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-42496 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Liferay Portal versions 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.97 and Liferay DXP versions 7.3 before update 34, 7.4 GA through update 92, and 2023.Q3 before patch 6. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a specific parameter, requiring user interaction to exploit. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.3.3, < 7.4.3.98CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay_portal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.3:fix_pack_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.3:fix_pack_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:7.3:service_pack_1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.6CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0061 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bomFixed in: 7.4.3.98
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomFixed in: 7.3.10.u34
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomFixed in: 2023.Q3.6

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqccritical

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting

Feb 21, 2024

References

liferay.dev / portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
Vendor Advisory