CVE-2022-42115 Liferay Portal Vulnerable to XSS in the Object Module

What is CVE-2022-42115?

CVE-2022-42115 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Object module's edit object details page in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.4 through 7.4.3.36 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the object field's `Label` text field.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42115?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.object.web. It affects 1 product.

Products include Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42115?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.object.web to 1.0.99 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-2022-42115 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42115 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-x43w-xphx-86w3.