Advisory record · GHSA-mc8m-4r3w-q2hw

Privilege escalation in Liferay Portal

CVSS 6.3 MediumEPSS 0.0048 · 41st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 20 Feb 2024, 06:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bomMaven<7.4.3.167.4.3.16
Identifiers
GHSA-mc8m-4r3w-q2hw · CVE-2022-45320
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-284
Published
20 Feb 2024
Updated
31 Mar 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Liferay Portal before 7.4.3.16 (Maven package com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom) is affected, and Liferay DXP before 7.2 fix pack 19, 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 16 are also affected. A remote authenticated user can become the owner of a wiki page by editing it, which is a privilege escalation. Upgrade Liferay Portal to 7.4.3.16 or later, or upgrade DXP to the listed fix pack or update.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0048, the 41st percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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