CVE-2023-47797 — Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on a content page’s edit page

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on a content page’s edit page in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.94 through 7.4.3.95 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the `p_l_back_url_title` parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on a content page’s edit page in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.94 through 7.4.3.95 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the `p_l_back_url_title` parameter.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Liferay	Portal	7.4.3.94

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-11-17T06:03:00.299Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-29T14:15:06.460Z

09References

• liferay.dev — https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt…