CVE-2023-42498: Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
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 comliferayportallanguageoverridewebinternalportletPLOPortletkey parameter.
Published Feb 21, 2024 · Updated Mar 20, 2026
Affected packages
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 7.4.3.8, <= 7.4.3.97
- Fixed in
- 7.4.3.98
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 2023.Q3, < 2023.Q3.5
- Fixed in
- 2023.Q3.5
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 7.4.13.u4, <= 7.4.13.u92
- Fixed in
- No patched version yet
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
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.
References
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