CVE-2022-42118: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Portal Search module in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 27, 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 `tag` parameter.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Liferay Dxp: version 7.3 only
• Liferay Liferay Portal: from 7.1.0, up to and including 7.4.2

Published 2022-11-15. Last modified 2026-07-09.