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URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')

CVE-2022-28977

Severity Medium
Score 6.1/10

Summary

"HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect" in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 through 7.4.2-1, 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".

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-601 - Open Redirect

An open redirect attack employs a URL parameter, HTML refresh tags, or a DOM based location change to exploit the trust of a vulnerable domain to direct the users to a malicious website. The attack could lead to higher severity vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access control, account takeover, XSS, and more.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published