Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to XSS via the Sharing Module
Date: 2022-11
Affected: maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom, maven/com.liferay:com.liferay.sharing.web
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2022-42111
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Sharing module's user notification before 3.0.9 from 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 by sharing an asset with a crafted payload.


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