CVE-2022-45320 Privilege escalation in Liferay Portal

What is CVE-2022-45320?

CVE-2022-45320 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 20 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Liferay Portal before 7.4.3.16 and Liferay DXP before 7.2 fix pack 19, 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 16 allow remote authenticated users to become the owner of a wiki page by editing the wiki page.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-45320?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2022-45320?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom to 7.4.3.16 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2022-45320 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-45320 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
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Also known as GHSA-mc8m-4r3w-q2hw.