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FKIE_CVE-2022-38901

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-10-19 02:15 - Updated: 2026-07-09 01:17

Severity

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://drive.proton.me/urls/D27RQ14NGW#b71d8XrBl2Mu	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.offensity.com/en/blog/authenticated-persistent-xss-in-liferay-dxp-cms-cve-2022-38901-and-cve-2022-38902/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://drive.proton.me/urls/D27RQ14NGW#b71d8XrBl2Mu	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.offensity.com/en/blog/authenticated-persistent-xss-in-liferay-dxp-cms-cve-2022-38901-and-cve-2022-38902/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
liferay	dxp	*
liferay	dxp	7.3
liferay	dxp	7.3
liferay	dxp	7.3
liferay	dxp	7.3
liferay	dxp	7.3
liferay	dxp	7.3
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	dxp	7.4
liferay	liferay_portal	*

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CVE-2022-38901 (GCVE-0-2022-38901)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-19 00:00 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:21

Summary

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-09 14:19 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://drive.proton.me/urls/D27RQ14NGW#b71d8XrBl2Mu
https://www.offensity.com/en/blog/authenticated-p…

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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FKIE_CVE-2022-38901

CVE-2022-38901 (GCVE-0-2022-38901)

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