CVE-2022-42118
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 13.2%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to XSS via the Portal Search Module
Published: 11/15/2022Modified: 8/8/2025
Description
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Portal Search module before 6.0.12 from Liferay Portal (7.1.0 through 7.4.2), and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 27, 7.2 before fix pack 15, and 7.3 before service pack 3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the `tag` parameter.
Affected packages (2)
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.webfrom 0, < 6.0.12
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp27
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42118
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttp://liferay.com
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/b42f1e70a69a31a3f2f7004a5b1923ec1e1e5445
- WEBhttps://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17342
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-42118?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121613298&_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%3D121613298%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse