Medium
Security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the App Builder module's custom object details page in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.4.0, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 14 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into an App Builder custom object's `Name` field.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-33938
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the App Builder module's custom object details page in Liferay Portal 7.3.0 through 7.4.0, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 14 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into an App Builder custom object's `Name` field.
osv:CVE-2023-33938
Complete source record
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