GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23MediumCVSS 6.1

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect Can Be Circumvented

Published
September 23, 2022
Last Modified
July 16, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-28977 →

📋 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) 'redirectparameter (2)FORWARD_URL` parameter, and (3) others parameters that rely on HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect.

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom:>= 7.3.1-ga2, < 7.4.3.4-ga4
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.0.10.fp91, < 7.0.10.fp101
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.1.10.fp17, < 7.1.10.fp25
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom:>= 7.2.10.fp5, < 7.2.10.fp14
  • maven/com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.util.java:< 7.9.0

🔗 References (9)