CVE-2023-42498: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.4 only; version 2023.q3.0 only; version 2023.q3.1 only; version 2023.q3.2 only; version 2023.q3.3 only; version 2023.q3.4 only
• Liferay Liferay Portal: from 7.4.3.8, before 7.4.3.98 (fixed in 7.4.3.98)

Published 2024-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.