CVE-2022-42112
MEDIUM5.4EPSS 0.22%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to XSS via the Portal Search Module
Published: 10/19/2022Modified: 7/16/2025
Description
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Portal Search module's Sort widget before 6.0.45 from Liferay Portal (7.2.0 through 7.4.3.24), and Liferay DXP 7.2 before fix pack 19, 7.3 before update 5, and DXP 7.4 before update 25 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload.
Affected packages (2)
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.webfrom 0, < 6.0.45
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.10.fp19
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42112
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttp://liferay.com
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/1f6521605152c0f8f82f490300215f08f885fe48
- WEBhttps://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17536
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-42112?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121612934&_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fliferay.dev%3A443%2Fportal%2Fsecurity%2Fknown-vulnerabilities%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_r_p_assetEntryId%3D121612934%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220701000000*/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42112