CVE-2022-42116

MEDIUM

Liferay DXP < 7.3 and 7.3.2-7.4.3.14 - Cross-Site Scripting via Frontend Editor CKEditor Name or Namespace Parameter

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product

http://liferay.com

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0020

EPSS Percentile 41.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (6)

com.liferay/com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web 0 - 5.0.46Maven

com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom 7.3.0 - 7.3.10.u6Maven

liferay/dxp 7.3 (9 CPE variants)

liferay/dxp 7.4 ga1 (15 CPE variants)

liferay/dxp < 7.3

liferay/liferay_portal 7.3.2 - 7.4.3.15

Published Oct 18, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026