What is GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93?

GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93 cover?

GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2023-42498. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93?

GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.6, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93?

GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93 affects 3 products, including: maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:\u003e= 7.4.3.8, \u003c= 7.4.3.97; maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:\u003e= 2023.Q3, \u003c 2023.Q3.5; maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:\u003e= 7.4.13.u4, \u003c= 7.4.13.u92.

GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93CriticalCVSS 9.6

Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

February 21, 2024

Last Modified

March 20, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-42498 →

📋 Description

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 products3

maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:>= 7.4.3.8, <= 7.4.3.97
maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 2023.Q3, < 2023.Q3.5
maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.4.13.u4, <= 7.4.13.u92

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42498
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2023-42498
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-73x3-8mrg-5r93