CVE-2022-42111
Published: 15 November 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-42111 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 38.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-45197
Vulnerability details
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Sharing module's user notification in Liferay Portal 7.2.1 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.2 before fix pack 19, and 7.3 before update 4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…
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by sharing an asset with a crafted payload.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.