Critical

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the Export for Translation Page

  • Disclosed: 17.10.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:22

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the Export for Translation page before 2.0.86 from Liferay Portal (7.4.3.4 through 7.4.3.85), and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 86 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_translation_web_internal_portlet_TranslationPortlet_redirect parameter.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) com.liferay:com.liferay.translation.web < 2.0.86 2.0.86
Java / Kotlin (Maven) com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom >= 7.4.0, < 7.4.13.u86 7.4.13.u86

References

CVSS score 9.6/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
com.liferay:com.liferay.translation.web, com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom
Disclosed
17.10.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 12:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-w2g3-j73q-7qv7 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: com.liferay:com.liferay.translation.web

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
2
First → latest
09.2022 10.2023
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2022: 1
  2. 2023: 1
  3. 2024: 0
  4. 2025: 0
  5. 2026: 0
  1. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Reflected XSS via the Export for Translation Page this entry
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2023-42497 < 2.0.86 2.0.86

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