CVE-2022-28978: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Site module's user membership administration page in Liferay Portal 7.0.1 through 7.4.1, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 102, 7.1 before fix pack 26, 7.2 before fix pack 15, and 7.3 before service pack 3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the a user's name.

Affected products

  • Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
  • Liferay Dxp: version 7.3 only
  • Liferay Liferay Portal: from 7.0.1, before 7.4.2 (fixed in 7.4.2)

Published 2022-09-22. Last modified 2026-07-09.