🛡️ CVE-2023-37940 — digital-experience-platform

🟡 CVSS 4.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
4.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP have Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in edit Service Access Policy page

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the edit Service Access Policy page in Liferay Portal 7.0.0 through 7.4.3.87, and Liferay DXP 7.4 GA through update 87, 7.3 GA through update 29, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a service access policy's Service Class text field.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-37940 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2023-37940 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (from 7.4 up to 7.4.13.u88)
  • com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (from 7.0.0 up to 7.4.3.88)
  • digital-experience-platform
  • liferay-portal (from 7.0.0 up to 7.4.3.88)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
liferay.dev (Web)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 4.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-18
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.4 7.4.13.u88
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.0.0 7.4.3.88
digital-experience-platform
liferay-portal 7.0.0 7.4.3.88

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