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SCA: security update for com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search.web (GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 428450

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Liferay Portal v7.1.0 through v7.4.2 and Liferay DXP 7.1 before fix pack 26, 7.2 before fix pack 15, and
 7.3 before service pack 3 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the
 Portal Search module's Custom Facet widget. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary web
 scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Custom Parameter Name text field. (CVE-2022-28979)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7r3w-wggm-pjwf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 428450

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28979

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-28979

cwe: CWE-79