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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2022-28979
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2022-28979
Aliases CVE-2022-28979
GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf
Summary Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to XSS in the Portal Search Module In Search Web before v6.0.19 in Liferay Portal (v7.1.0 through v7.4.2) and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 26, 7.2 before fix pack 15, and 7.3 before service pack 3 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Portal Search module's Custom Facet widget. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Custom Parameter Name text field.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2022-28979.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/e18065248673c77927f4839439aa200bfb965ced
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-28979-xss-in-custom-facet-widget?p_r_p_assetEntryId=121612377&_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%3D121612377%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_jekt_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse
CVE-2022-28979 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28979
cve-2022-28979-xss-in-custom-facet-widget Other https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/HbL5mxmVrnXW/content/cve-2022-28979-xss-in-custom-facet-widget
GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf
LPE-17381 Other https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPE-17381
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:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom/CVE-2022-28979.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-27T19:59:49Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28979.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2022-28979

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]