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Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP fails to check origin of event messages

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 4, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 15, 2025

Package

maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom (Maven)

Affected versions

< 7.4.13.u5

Patched versions

7.4.13.u5
maven com.liferay:com.liferay.remote.app.web (Maven)
< 2.0.21
2.0.21

Description

The Remote App module before 2.0.21 from Liferay Portal v7.4.3.4 through v7.4.3.8 and Liferay DXP 7.4 before update 5 does not check if the origin of event messages it receives matches the origin of the Remote App, allowing attackers to exfiltrate the CSRF token via a crafted event message.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 3, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 4, 2022
Reviewed Jul 15, 2025
Last updated Jul 15, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(44th percentile)

Weaknesses

Origin Validation Error

The product does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25146

GHSA ID

GHSA-ghw5-998m-vw4w

Source code

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