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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2023-42498
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2023-42498
Aliases CVE-2023-42498
GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93
Summary 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 `_com_liferay_portal_language_override_web_internal_portlet_PLOPortlet_key` parameter.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2023-42498.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
CVE-2023-42498 https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42498
CVE-2023-42498 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42498
GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2023-42498.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-02-26T17:54:30Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2023/42xxx/CVE-2023-42498.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2023-42498

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]