GHSA-g44j-f8wm-6622

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    GHSA-g44j-f8wm-6622

    Published: 17 Oct 2023Last Modified: 8 Aug 2025

    Summary: Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Stored XSS in the Manage Vocabulary Page

    Details: Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the manage vocabulary page in the Asset Categories Admin Web module before 5.0.87 from Liferay Portal (7.4.2 through 7.4.3.87), and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 88 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a Vocabulary's 'description' text field.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42629, https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/2e02110747dd5cccb978623545bfa1f3ad0a5602, https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal, https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42629, https://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/stored-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilities-in-liferay-portal

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: com.liferay:com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web

    Purl: pkg:maven/com.liferay/com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.0.87

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    1.0.1
    1.0.10
    1.0.11
    1.0.12
    1.0.13
    1.0.14
    1.0.15
    1.0.16
    1.0.17
    1.0.18
    1.0.19
    1.0.2
    1.0.3
    1.0.4
    1.0.5
    1.0.6
    1.0.7
    1.0.8
    1.0.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-g44j-f8wm-6622 | CVE-DB