Cross-site scripting in Liferay Portal

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2023-33942 · BIT-liferay-2023-33942 · GHSA-wv99-wmpf-jrqr · Published 24/05/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-33942 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom, digital experience platform (liferay), liferay portal (liferay).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.53%, higher than 45.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 7.4.3.51 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven	`≥ 7.4.3.50, < 7.4.3.51`	`7.4.3.51`
digital experience platform liferay	`= 7.4`	No fix yet
liferay portal liferay	`= 7.4.3.50`	No fix yet

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web Content Display widget's article selector in Liferay Liferay Portal 7.4.3.50, and Liferay DXP 7.4 update 50 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a web content article's Title field.

NVD description