🛡️ CVE-2022-28977
🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-601 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-601
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-23
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2025-07-16

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.util.java 7.9.0
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom 7.2.10.fp5 7.2.10.fp14
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom 7.3.1-ga2 7.4.3.4-ga4
digital-experience-platform
dxp
liferay-portal 7.3.1 7.4.3.4

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