CVE-2022-25146 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP fails to check origin of event messages

What is CVE-2022-25146?

CVE-2022-25146 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 2 Mar 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Remote App module in Liferay Portal Liferay Portal v7.4.3.4 through v7.4.3.8 and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 5 does not check if the origin of event messages it receives matches the origin of the Remote App, allowing attackers to exfiltrate the CSRF token via a crafted event message.

Weakness: CWE-346

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-25146?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, liferay and com.liferay:com.liferay.remote.app.web. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2022-25146?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to 7.4.13.u5 or later.

Is CVE-2022-25146 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-25146 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

• CVE-2024-8980 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF in the Script Console Critical 9.6
• CVE-2023-42496 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2023-42498 Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-25147 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-26269 Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6

All Liferay Digital Experience Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-liferay-2022-25146, GHSA-ghw5-998m-vw4w.