Privilege escalation in Liferay Portal

published 2024-02-20 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mc8m-4r3w-q2hw , EUVD-2022-48219

cvss: 6.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits: 0; none known

Liferay Portal before 7.4.3.16 and Liferay DXP before 7.2 fix pack 19, 7.3 before update 6, and 7.4 before update 16 allow remote authenticated users to become the owner of a wiki page by editing the wiki page.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3 links 1

maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.4.3.16
liferay digital_experience_platform 7.2
liferay liferay_portal 7.4.3.16

github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/releases/tag/7.4.3.16-ga16 release

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-02-20)

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
GitHub	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom	<7.4.3.16	7.4.3.16

Classification

Weakness

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

References

liferay.dev /portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/cve-2022-45320
web, vendor-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2022-45320
advisory
github.com /liferay/liferay-portal
package
github.com /liferay/liferay-portal/releases/tag/7.4.3.16-ga16
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary