If you think it's a third party app then the first thing to do is try booting into "safe mode" (which will involve pressing some buttons while booting the tablet - which buttons will depend on the device). That will disable all third party apps. If the system boots you can then remove the suspected apps then try rebooting.
If the tablet is not rooted(*) then any app you downloaded can't do damage to the operating system, and so a factory reset will fix the problem (of course you'll lose any data that aren't backed up, but if you are in a bootloop and don't have a custom recovery I think those data are gone anyway).
You could try just clearing cache first, just in case - unlikely to work, but you wouldn't lose anything that way, so would just waste a few minutes. Both that and a full factory reset can be done from recovery mode (which you also access by pressing some buttons while restarting).
(*) One caveat on rooting: if it's based on 4.2.2 that's an old and vulnerable Android version, and there were apps that could crack the security and modify the operating system. Some of these were designed specifically to allow you to root android devices, but malware could use the same exploits to install itself or other malware to the system. So actually with an old, insecure operating system like this I cannot exclude the possibility that an app you installed could damage the OS - it's unlikely if you downloaded from a curated source like the Play Store, very possible if you were downloading from shady sites (the sort of sites that offer "paid apps for free" are hotbeds of malware, for example). If you have picked up something like this then without access to the stock firmware, which
@svim notes is not available, there probably isn't much you can do.