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Liferay Portal Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42118)

Description

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2022-42118

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities CWE-707 CVE-2022-42118

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