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Plain text can still be seen despite SSL

Issue Even if SSL (or TLS) is enabled, the login credentials are in plain text while intercepting requests with Burp Suite. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution If a user utilizes the burp suite as a proxy, they...

Password reminder answers are not masked

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Issue As Liferay DXP does not hide password reminder answers, attackers can capture user's password reminder answers through man-in-the-middle or shoulder surfing attacks. Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP...

Is there a REST API method to revoke the OAuth2 tokens?

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Issue We want to provide a public REST API method to revoke the OAuth2 tokens following the RFC 7009 specification https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7009#section-2.1 Does Liferay provide this functionality?...

New user is not being able to login properly

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Issue A new user (this also happens to LDAP users) is unable to log-in the first time, but seems to be able to log-in on the second attempt. Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a guest user from Create Account tab at the...

CVE-2022-23305, CVE-2022-23307, and CVE-2017-5645

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Issue This article outlines the concerns of CVE-2022-23305, CVE-2022-23307, and CVE-2017-5645 vulnerabilities with respect to the Liferay DXP Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 Liferay DXP 7.1 Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP...

javax.portlet.PortletException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getAttribute: Session already invalidated error

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Issue Why does this error gets triggered? What would be the cause? INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-2573][CustomLoginPortlet:726] url redirect = https://xxxx/group/yyyy ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-2573][PortletServlet:112]...

Error when configuring SAML in a clustered environment for the first time

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Issue When configuring SAML in a clustered environment and entering the configuration Idp connection an error is shown: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at...

Browser console error : The connection used to load resources from https://www.xxx.yyyy used TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, which are deprecated and will be disabled in the future

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Issue Browser console error as "The connection used to load resources from https://www.xxx.yyyy used TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, which are deprecated and will be disabled in the future. Once disabled, users will be prevented...

Getting mixed content on the portal

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Issue After enabling SSL and routing the domain, getting mixed content on the portal that is the pages in the https://www.abc.in referring the http://www.abc.in for the stylesheet, javascript, and henceforth....

Error signing via SAML: com.liferay.saml.runtime.exception.AudienceException: Unable verify audience

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Issue Liferay is configured as a SAML Service Provider. When trying to sign in to Liferay it is not possible and the following error is shown in the logs: 2022-01-20 11:50:38.554 ERROR [default...

Session logs out intermittently after being redirected by the payment link

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Issue After being redirected by the payment link, the session logs out. Steps to reproduce : 1. Login in Liferay. 2. Call the API in Postman. Request parameters are attached (SSL Commerz Request Parameters.txt)...

URL length modification / restriction

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Issue Sometimes we need to modify or restrict the length or URL Liferay generates ( for example for security custom solutions ) but Liferay has no out of the box solution for that. Environment DXP 7.2...

Change the GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID cookie to expire Null

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Issue The Guest language ID cookie in Liferay has a one-year expiration, whereas the undefined cookie in the F5 balancer caused the conflict. Is there a way to modify the Cookie's duration in Liferay? Environment...

dtSa cookies containing special characters

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Issue As dtsa cookies are detected, are these cookies URLs cause for concern? Is there any information concerning these cookies in relation to Liferay? Use Case: As Liferay generated dtSa cookies contain the...

How to configure the default timeout value to any value instead of having it capped at 500ms

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Issue The default library timeout until Liferay DXP 7.2 fix pack dxp-3 is 250ms. The default library timeout since Liferay DXP 7.2 fix pack dxp-4 is 500ms. Use Case: The user would like to be able to set/configure...

Liferay as SAML SP fails after switching the URL of the virtual instance

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Issue SAML configuration hasn't been working since the virtual host of the portal instance changed. Caused by: org.opensaml.ws.security.SecurityPolicyException: Request was required to be secured but was not...

How to resolve users being unable to log out after configuring a Token-Based SSO

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Issue After configuring and enabling a Token Based SSO in our 7.2 environment (upgraded from 7.0), users are now unable to log out, and they are instead redirected to the home page (still logged in). In our 7.0...

CVE-2021-27568 json-smart v2 through v2.4

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Issue Steps to Reproduce: The json-smart.jar's can be found here:...

How to Configure Liferay DXP with Multiple IdPs (OKTA via SAML and OIDC)

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This article documents the way to configure Liferay DXP 7.x as a Service Provider working with two SSO protocols (Okta using SAML 2.0 and Google OpenID Connect). The basic configuration can be achieved within Liferay out of...

Content-Security-Policy Header Integration

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Issue How can a CSP (content security policy) HTTP header that enables only specific external resources to be loaded in the frontend be implemented? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution CSP is not currently...

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Header Not Used

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Issue The HSTS header cannot completely defend against man-in-the-middle attacks. However, it can be useful in defending against an attack in which an attacker establishes an encrypted connection to the application and...

Verbose Error Messages

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Issue The name of the technologies used, such as Apache Coyote, Tomcat, etc. are visible. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2, DXP 7.3 Resolution Each application is responsible for allowing its information to be displayed...

Known Vulnerabilities with Liferay AntiSamy

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The following issue may compromise the security of your Liferay Digital Experience Platform implementation. Vulnerability Information The Liferay AntiSamy app depends on third party libraries that have known...

Session Management in Liferay

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Issue How the sessions are managed in Liferay and what are all the different types to configure the same. Also, whether the Liferay session work for the javascript disabled browsers? Environment Liferay DXP...

Is functionality impacted when upgrading to Bootstrap 5 in portal 6.2 ? Is it supported ?

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Issue Requirement is to upgrade the Bootstrap library. Is functionality impacted when upgrading to Bootstrap 5 in portal 6.2 ? Is Liferay portal 6.2 compatible with Bootstrap 5? Is it supported ? Environment...

Forgot Password is not popped up with an error when providing an email address that doesn't exist in the DB

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Issue In the 'Forgot Password' option, while trying to provide an email id that doesn't exist in the database, the user can proceed to answer the security question. Whereas an error is not popped up saying the user's...

Is there a way to allow upper cases in a screen name?

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Issue Is there any way to ensure that a user's screen name maintains the same capitalization that is present in the AD (Active Directory) when the user is imported into Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2...

When Setting Okta up as an SSO for Liferay PaaS, how can I generate IdP metadata in Okta without first having SP metadata?

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Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM). Issue The documentation for setting up an SSO with Liferay PaaS...

Does the Encryption Key that is generated per company id for the Liferay Installation ever change?

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Issue Does the Encryption Key that is generated per company id for the Liferay Installation ever change? Environment Liferay 7.2 Resolution The following portal properties will alter the encryption key for a Liferay...

How to create Custom attribute in MS Active Directory and configure in Liferay

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Issue Is there any way to map a custom attribute in Liferay created from MS Active Directory? Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution Liferay provides an OOTB option to achieve the custom attribute...

How to configure liferay to invoke web services with Digest Auth

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Issue How to configure Liferay to invoke web services with Digest Auth and use it in a client. As example we'll use POSTMAN Environment Liferay DXP 7.1+ Resolution As example, we are going to configure the access to...

OpenID Connect does not work with Azure AD B2C

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Please note that this Fast Track applies to versions before our Quarterly Release 2024.Q1. From Quarterly Release 2024.Q1 on, this function is enabled as described in LPD-9397. Please...

How do I add Captcha in Sign in Portlet?

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Issue I would like to add Captcha in Sign in Portlet, as I can do in Create Account and Forgot Password options. Environment DXP 7.3 Resolution Unfortunately, there is no out-of-the-box feature to enable Captcha...

Post deployment of SAML plugin the SAML Admin page is blank

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Issue After deploying the SAML plugin in the Liferay instance, the SAML admin page displayed blank. Below Stack trace occurs in the log at the time of performing the above actions. 2021-03-23 19:14:22.610 WARN...

Restrict guest users from accessing login page when attempting to access a protected page or resource

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Issue By default, guest users are prompted to the login page when they are attempting to hit a url or access a resource that is protected and not available to guest users. I do not want guest users to be redirected to...

What difference is there between System Setting and Instance Setting LDAP configurations?

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Issue There are two locations within Liferay DXP where LDAP configurations can be set. One is the System Settings (Control Panel -> Configuration -> System Settings -> Security -> LDAP) and the other the Instance...

How do I Add More Than One Field To the Custom Mapping Sections in My 7.0 LDAP Setup?

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Issue I would like to add multiple fields to the custom mappings section in my LDAP setup. Environment DXP 7.0 Resolution During LDAP setup, navigate to Control Panel > Configuration > Instance Settings, in...

After performing a security configuration, our users can no longer add Categories in Web Content

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Issue After applying the workaround indicated in this Security Advisory LSV-545: Unauthenticated Remote code execution via JSONWS (CVE-2020-7961), every client-side web service call to the JSONWS-API is failing:...

SAML Authentication Issue: Message context was not authenticated

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Issue After enabling the SAML, when the user is trying to log in, authentication failed with the following message. ERROR [http-nio-8080-exec-36][BaseSamlStrutsAction:59]...

DNSName components must begin with a letter error while starting LDAP server in Apache DS

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Issue During the configuration of Apache DS I encountered an issue that resulted in an IOException that interfered with starting the LDAP server:...

Landing page redirection is not working after SAML configuration

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Issue Once the SAML is configured the Landing Page redirection is not redirecting to the desired page. Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution The pre and post-login actions (like DefaultLandingPage actions) are not...

How to resolve a "Failed to define class from Service Module Loader" error

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Issue Upon installation of security-hotfix-lsv-45 in Liferay Portal bundled with JBoss, a "Failed to define class" error is generated in the Liferay logs. Failed to define class...

Couldn't retrieve remote JWK set: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 error occurs when using OpenID Connect authentication with Oracle Identity Cloud Service

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Environment Liferay DXP 7.0-7.3 Oracle Identity Cloud Service OpenID Connect authentication enabled Symptom When OpenID Connect authentication is enabled in Liferay DXP and Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) is the...

HTTP 400 response code shows sensitive data

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Issue Sensitive system information may be seen in HTTP 400 - Bad Response status Environment DXP 7.0 DXP 7.1 DXP 7.2 Resolution The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 400 Bad Request response status code...

SAML no longer working after upgrading Liferay

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Issue After upgrading Liferay from Liferay DXP 7.0 to Liferay DXP 7.2, SAML is no longer working and users are no longer able to authenticate using SAML. It is possible that the following error will also appear in the...

Why p_p_auth token is exposed in the URL? Could it be a security risk?

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Issue On Liferay Portal 6.2, p_p_auth token is exposed in the URL. It might be considered as a security risk. Environment Liferay Portal 6.2 Resolution No attacker or other user can use p_p_auth token, only a...

SAML logout when session expires

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Issue The Single sign-on and Single log out are working fine when the user manually logs out but there is no Single logout happening on the portal session expiry Environment Liferay 7.0 as IdP Resolution Service...

How to configure validation directives in AntiSamy

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Issue When trying to import content between sites, i.e. knowledge base, a validation error arises: An unexpected error occurred with the publication process. Please check your portal and publishing configuration....

How to review User Permissions on Freemarker and Velocity templates

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Issue After applying the fix for LSV-658, how can I see which users have permissions for (which) Freemarker/Velocity templates, i.e. via the user interface or by a database query? The Mitigation Notes of LSV-658...

The Forget Password page is vulnerable to CSRF attack

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Issue The Forget Password form can be re-submitted with different cookies which lead to the CSRF issue. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution This is considered as a False Positive, as the user is not logged into...

Page version control information is accessible in sitemap.xml

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Issue Page version control information is accessible in sitemap.xml - such information shall not be exposed for security reasons. Reproduction: 1) Start up bundle 2) Access sitemap...

The /dtd/ folder of the war with sensitive information is exposed when deploying a portal on Weblogic 12c R2

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Liferay Support does not recommend or endorse specific third-party products over others. The information provided about products not created by Liferay is for reference purposes only, and any implementation of these...

Module download link can not be opened on Liferay DXP Release Notes page with 404 error

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Issue When trying to download modules like "com.liferay.saml.opensaml.integration" from Liferay DXP Release Notes page, the download link can not be opened with a 404 error. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution...

No administrative options can be accessed when an F5 load balancer is in front of Liferay forcing a secure protocol

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Issue When a F5 load balancer is in front of Liferay and is forcing a secure protocol, no administrative options can be selected and accessed. On Liferay the following options are configured on the...

Liferay redirects to iframe source URL upon logging in

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Issue After adding an Iframe to a Liferay page and set the Source URL of that Iframe to e.g. /web/guest/page2, Liferay will redirect to /web/guest/page2 when logging in through the Welcome homepage. Environment...

When authorizing OAuth2 applications HTTP is used instead of HTTPS

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Issue If there's a web server in front of Liferay, when clicking on the Authorize button to authorize OAuth2 applications HTTP is used instead of HTTPS and the following WARNs are displayed in the log. 2019-11-08...

Is it possible to set different Authentication methods for different sites in the same portal instance

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Issue Is it possible to set different Authentication methods for different sites in the same portal instance? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Currently, it is not possible to use different authentication methods...

LDAP server is unreachable when "Required" option is enabled

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Issue For any virtual instances apart from a default instance, if the "Required" option in LDAP is enabled, only LDAP users can log in to the portal. When the LDAP server is down/unreachable, none of the...

Why the error "Failed to bind to the LDAP server with userDN" is thrown in the logs

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Issue What is the reason behind the following error which is thrown in the logs? [LDAPAuth:198] Failed to bind to the LDAP server with userDN CN=VERMA BRIJESH KUMAR...

Impact of Google Chrome 80 and changes in the default behavior of the SameSite cookie setting on SAML

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Issue Updated (May 31, 2021): The behavior is enabled by default since Chrome 84. Updated (April 3, 2020): Chrome is Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes Updated (June 12, 2020): Added information about...

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