What is CVE-2022-42121?

CVE-2022-42121 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2022-11-15.

How severe is CVE-2022-42121?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2022-42121

A SQL injection vulnerability in the Layout module in Liferay Portal 7.1.3 through 7.4.3.4, and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 27, 7.2 before fix pack 17, 7.3 before service pack 3, and 7.4 GA allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted payload injected into a page template's 'Name' field.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.010 (57.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.1, 7.2
Liferay Dxp — versions 7.3, 7.4
Liferay Liferay_portal
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-42121?: CVE-2022-42121 is a high-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2022-11-15.
How severe is CVE-2022-42121?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.