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CVE-2022-42116

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: 2022-10-18 · updated 2026-07-09
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Frontend Editor module's integration with CKEditor in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.14, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 15 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) name, or (2) namespace parameter.

Affected products

• Liferay DXP: before 7.3; 7.3, 7.3-sp1, 7.3-sp2, 7.3-sp3, 7.3-update_1, 7.3-update_2 (+18) — fixed in 7.3
• Liferay Portal: from 7.3.2 before 7.4.3.15 — fixed in 7.4.3.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Liferay DXP 7.3; Liferay Portal 7.4.3.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42116
• https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-42116

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