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Vulnerability details: VCID-ecvm-d6c4-cfdx
Vulnerability ID VCID-ecvm-d6c4-cfdx
Aliases CVE-2023-42496
GHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqc
Summary Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package 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
epss 0.0044 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-42496
cvssv3.1_qr CRITICAL https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqc
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
generic_textual CRITICAL https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
generic_textual CRITICAL https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
ssvc Track https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
cvssv3.1 9.6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42496
generic_textual CRITICAL https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42496
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-42496
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
CVE-2023-42496 https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
CVE-2023-42496 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42496
GHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqc https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-54pv-r62j-9qqc
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-02-21T16:07:22Z/ Found at https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42496
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42496
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.63482
EPSS Score 0.0044
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T21:03:24.378644+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.portal.bom/CVE-2023-42496.yml 38.6.0