XSS in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2023-44309

Multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the fragment components in Liferay Portal 7.4.2 through 7.4.3.53, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 54 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into any non-HTML field of a linked source asset.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (37.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 37.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2023-44309: held from 0.005 to 0.005.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-44309?
CVE-2023-44309 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2023-10-17.
How severe is CVE-2023-44309?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-44309 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.