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CVE-2022-28978

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-22 · updated 2026-07-09
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Site module's user membership administration page in Liferay Portal 7.0.1 through 7.4.1, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 102, 7.1 before fix pack 26, 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 a user's name.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: 7.0, 7.0-fix_pack_100, 7.0-fix_pack_101, 7.0-fix_pack_13, 7.0-fix_pack_14, 7.0-fix_pack_24 (+105)
• Liferay DXP: 7.3, 7.3-sp1, 7.3-sp2, 7.3-sp3
• Liferay Portal: from 7.0.1 before 7.4.2 — fixed in 7.4.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Liferay Portal 7.4.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28978-stored-xss-with-user-name-in-site-membership
• https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28978-stored-xss-with-user-name-in-site-membership

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