CVE-2022-42111

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Sharing module's user notification in Liferay Portal 7.2.1 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.2 before fix pack 19, and 7.3 before update 4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by sharing an asset with a crafted payload.

Affected products

Liferay Digital Experience Platform: 7.2, 7.2-fix_pack_1, 7.2-fix_pack_10, 7.2-fix_pack_11, 7.2-fix_pack_12, 7.2-fix_pack_13 (+10)
Liferay DXP: 7.3, 7.3-update_1, 7.3-update_2, 7.3-update_3
Liferay Portal: from 7.2.1 through 7.4.2

References

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17379
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42111
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17379
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42111

Get alerted when CVE-2022-42111 or the next vulnerability affects your stack