CVE-2022-42123: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Zip slip vulnerability in the Elasticsearch Connector in Liferay Portal 7.3.3 through 7.4.3.18, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 19 allows attackers to create or overwrite existing files on the filesystem via the installation of a malicious Elasticsearch Sidecar plugin.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only
• Liferay Liferay Portal: from 7.3.3, before 7.4.3.19 (fixed in 7.4.3.19)

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