What is CVE-2022-28977?

CVE-2022-28977 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-09-22.

How severe is CVE-2022-28977?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Open Redirect in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

CVE-2022-28977

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.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

EPSS: 0.005 (37.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Liferay Digital_experience_platform — versions 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
Liferay Dxp — versions 7.3
Liferay Liferay_portal
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Product, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-28977?: CVE-2022-28977 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-09-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-28977?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.