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SCA: security update for com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, com.liferay:com.liferay.asset.categories.admin.web (GHSA-g44j-f8wm-6622)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432658

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the manage vocabulary page in Liferay Portal 7.4.2
 through 7.4.3.87, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 88 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web
 script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a Vocabulary's 'description' text field.
 (CVE-2023-42629)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g44j-f8wm-6622

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432658

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/9/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-42629

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42629

cwe: CWE-79