CVE-2022-26594 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP allows arbitrary injection via form field

What is CVE-2022-26594?

CVE-2022-26594 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 15 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Liferay Portal 7.3.5 through 7.4.0, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before service pack 3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a form field's help text to (1) Forms module's form builder, or (2) App Builder module's object form view's form builder.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-26594?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay:com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.form.field.type. It affects 1 product.

Products include Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2022-26594?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to 7.3.10.fp3 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2022-26594 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-26594 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Liferay Portal

• CVE-2020-7961 Liferay Portal Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-33990 File upload in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16891 Liferay Portal Allows RCE via Deserialization of a JSON Payload Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-47797 Liferay Portal XSS with `p_l_back_url_title` on edit content page Critical 9.6
• CVE-2020-13445 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

All Liferay Liferay Portal vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-658f-xhv4-p978.