Staging Environment: Content and features may be unstable or change without notice.
Advisory details: github_osv / GHSA-7m65-hmvg-rxpc
Advisory ID github_osv/GHSA-7m65-hmvg-rxpc
Aliases CVE-2022-28978
Summary Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to XSS in the Site Module Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Site module's user membership administration page in Liferay Site Memberships Web before 5.0.10 from 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.9
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 5.4 https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/09/GHSA-7m65-hmvg-rxpc/GHSA-7m65-hmvg-rxpc.json
generic_textual MODERATE
Reference id Reference type URL
http://liferay.com
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/ffdc9d1f8abf484598afdc51671a30533740c16d
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17332
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-28978-stored-xss-with-user-name-in-site-membership?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121612301&_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fliferay.dev%3A443%2Fportal%2Fsecurity%2Fknown-vulnerabilities%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_r_p_assetEntryId%3D121612301%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
https://web.archive.org/web/20220922015759/https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28978-stored-xss-with-user-name-in-site-membership
CVE-2022-28978 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28978
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/09/GHSA-7m65-hmvg-rxpc/GHSA-7m65-hmvg-rxpc.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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none

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unchanged

changed

high

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none

high

low

none

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none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-27T18:52:15Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28978.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2022-28978

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-27T18:52:15Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28978.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2022-28978

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]