Medium
Security advisory
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Site module's user membership administration page in 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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-28978
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 02:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Site module's user membership administration page in 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.
osv:CVE-2022-28978
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.294452017Z",
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"references": [
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"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/28xxx/CVE-2022-28978.json",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 492074,
"published_at": "2022-09-21T23:38:59+00:00"
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