CVE-2022-28977

mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.006 · 49 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.60% (49th) EPSS

CVSS 6.1 · medium

Is it mine?

11 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondaryexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-601USprimaryCWE-601US

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
liferay digital experience platform= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
liferay digital experience platform= 7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
liferay digital experience platform= 7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
liferay dxp= 7.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:liferay:dxp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
liferay liferay portal7.3.1 → 7.4.3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay_portal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.util.java< 7.9.0osvUSpkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/com.liferay.util.java
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom7.0.10.fp91 → 7.0.10.fp101osvUSpkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom7.1.10.fp17 → 7.1.10.fp25osvUSpkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom7.2.10.fp5 → 7.2.10.fp14osvUSpkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/release.dxp.bom
Maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom7.3.1-ga2 → 7.4.3.4-ga4osvUSpkg:maven/com.liferay.portal/release.portal.bom

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-w397-9p2j-6x23Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP HtmlUtil.escapeRedirect Can Be Circumvented2022-09-23ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-09-22modified 2026-07-09

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references (5)

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