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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-42117

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Frontend Taglib module in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.16, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

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CVE-2022-42117
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3 Nov 2026, 14:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-42117

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Oct 2022, 00:00 UTC

A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Frontend Taglib module in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.16, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

osv:CVE-2022-42117
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-42117",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Frontend Taglib module in Liferay Portal 7.3.2 through 7.4.3.16, and Liferay DXP 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.412435878Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/42xxx/CVE-2022-42117.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42117"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 496378,
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