Wiki ownership takeover through page editing
Published Feb 20, 2024 · Updated Mar 28, 2025
Privilege escalation in affected Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP releases allows remote authenticated users to take ownership of edited wiki pages. The Wiki edit operation assigns page ownership to the editing account; Liferay has not published the specific code path or omitted authorization check. The documented consequence is limited to unauthorized page ownership, and no unauthenticated path is reported.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in affected Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP releases allows remote authenticated users to take ownership of edited wiki pages. The Wiki edit operation assigns page ownership to the editing account; Liferay has not published the specific code path or omitted authorization check. The documented consequence is limited to unauthorized page ownership, and no unauthenticated path is reported.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-45320
- Published
- Feb 20, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-284, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 20, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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