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GHSA-W397-9P2J-6X23

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-09-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-07-16 14:47

Summary

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect Can Be Circumvented

Details

HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.0 fix pack 91 through 101, 7.1 fix pack 17 through 25, 7.2 fix pack 5 through 14, and 7.3 before service pack 3 can be circumvented by using multiple forward slashes, which allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the (1) 'redirectparameter (2)FORWARD_URL` parameter, and (3) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2022-28977 (GCVE-0-2022-28977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-22 00:02 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:18

Summary

HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 through 7.4.2, and Liferay DXP 7.0 fix pack 91 through 101, 7.1 fix pack 17 through 25, 7.2 fix pack 5 through 14, and 7.3 before service pack 3 can be circumvented by using multiple forward slashes, which allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the (1) 'redirect` parameter (2) `FORWARD_URL` parameter, and (3) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-27 16:00 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-601 - URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2349 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://portal.liferay.dev/learn/security/known-v…

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