Medium
Security advisory
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Document and Media module - file upload functionality in Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.3.10 SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JS script or HTML into the description field of uploaded svg file.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-38901
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 20:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Document and Media module - file upload functionality in Liferay Digital Experience Platform 7.3.10 SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JS script or HTML into the description field of uploaded svg file.
osv:CVE-2022-38901
Complete source record
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