CVSS 3.1
6.1 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2022-28979
Medium (6.1) in liferay. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web 6.0.19.
Liferay Portal v7.1.0 through v7.4.2 and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 26, 7.2 before fix pack 15, and 7.3 before service pack 3 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Portal Search module's Custom Facet widget. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Custom Parameter Name text field.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- liferay:digital_experience_platform
- liferay:dxp
- liferay:liferay_portal
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf | Maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web | <6.0.19 | 6.0.19 |
| GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf | Maven | com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom | >=7.1.0 | no fix published |
| GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf | Maven | com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom | >=7.2.0 | no fix published |
References
- https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17381
- https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28979-xss-in-custom-facet-widget
- https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17381
- https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28979-xss-in-custom-facet-widget