CVE-2022-42114 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to XSS via the Role Module

What is CVE-2022-42114?

CVE-2022-42114 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Liferay Liferay Portal, published on 18 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Role module's edit role assignees page in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.36, and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 37 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42114?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay:com.liferay.roles.admin.web. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Dxp, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42114?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to 7.4.13.u37 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-2022-42114 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42114 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Liferay Portal

• CVE-2022-42120 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to SQL Injection via the Fragment Module Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-42122 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to SQL Injection via Friendly URL Module Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-35030 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF via the Layout Module High 8.8
• CVE-2021-29053 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Multiple SQL Injections High 8.8
• CVE-2021-33321 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP insecure default configuration High 7.5

All Liferay Liferay Portal vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-cmrw-cgfc-v6x2.