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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2022-28977 EUVD-2022-33408GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect Can Be Circumvented

Published Sep 22, 2022 · Updated Jul 9, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.util.java < 7.9.0 7.9.0 GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom >= 7.0.10.fp91, < 7.0.10.fp101 7.0.10.fp101 GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom >= 7.1.10.fp17, < 7.1.10.fp25 7.1.10.fp25 GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom >= 7.2.10.fp5, < 7.2.10.fp14 7.2.10.fp14 GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom >= 7.3.1-ga2, < 7.4.3.4-ga4 7.4.3.4-ga4 GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23

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