Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wiki widget in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.3.87, and Liferay DXP 7.0 fix pack…

Description

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wiki widget in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.3.87, and Liferay DXP 7.0 fix pack 83 through 102, 7.1 fix pack 28 and earlier, 7.2 fix pack 20 and earlier, 7.3 update 33 and earlier, and 7.4 before update 88 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into a parent wiki page via a crafted payload injected into a wiki page's ‘Content’ text field.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.0.

Weakness

• CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Liferay · DXP

  • affected 7.0.10-de-83 – ≤ 7.0.10-*
  • affected 7.1.10 – ≤ 7.1.10-*
  • affected 7.2.10 – ≤ 7.2.10-*
  • affected 7.3.10 – ≤ 7.3.10-*
  • affected 7.4.13 – ≤ 7.4.13.u87

• Liferay · Portal

  • affected 7.1.0 – ≤ 7.4.3.87

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavencom.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bomGHSA-hv45-r2f5-fmhj (opens in a new tab)
• Mavencom.liferay:com.liferay.wiki.webGHSA-hv45-r2f5-fmhj (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42628 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• https://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilities-in-liferay-portal/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryexploitx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-hv45-r2f5-fmhj (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-42628](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-42628.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-42628)

Record last updated 2 Aug 2024, 19:23 UTC.