CVE-2022-42121
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.60%Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to SQL Injection via the Layout Module
Published: 11/15/2022Modified: 9/5/2025
Description
A SQL injection vulnerability in the Layout module before 4.0.17 from Liferay Portal (7.1.3 through 7.4.3.4), and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 27, 7.2 before fix pack 17, 7.3 before service pack 3, and 7.4 GA allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted payload injected into a page template's 'Name' field.
Affected packages (2)
- Maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.layout.page.template.servicefrom 0, < 4.0.17
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.10.fp27
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42121
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttp://liferay.com
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/14c8fbbac814c0b511b4f3ade19eafb2182923c7
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/5a17acb714c57e36695b7caff8e6a2789e2cf9d0
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/82de94e9f3a4425e3ee6c187462d670ae9bfef51
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/f245f4b428186c8e5964a9ffe90ccc7e12cf7f66
- WEBhttps://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17414
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-42121?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121613426&_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%3D121613426%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
- WEBhttps://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42121