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How to Login after Blacklisting the Sign-In Portlet

Issue We Blacklisted the Sign-In Portlet with a third-party authentication application and the admin logins were not synchronized in the process and so now we can no longer access our environment. How can we restore...

Can Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) be set for specific roles only?

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Issue We want to set up MFA for Administrators only. Is this possible with Liferay out-of-the-box? Can we target specific users to sign in using multi-factor authentication? Environment DXP 7.4 DXP 7.3 DXP 7.2 ...

How to enable CSRF Token in Liferay?

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Issue How to enable CSRF Token in order to prevent CSRF attacks in Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Resolution Liferay's p_auth token protects against CSRF and is enabled by default. Here is the main...

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...

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...

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...

SAML Authentication Issue: Message context was not authenticated when Azure AD as IDP

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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]...

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...

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...

How to prevent an AD user from logging into Liferay using the old password if LDAP authentication cannot set to be required

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Issue After the user changes the password in Microsoft Active Directory (AD), the user can still log into Liferay using the old password. If enabling "Required" option, the issue can be resolved. But users created manually...

How can the p_auth authorization token be generated?

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Issue Liferay protects itself against CSRF attacks by generating the p_auth authorization token. How can this token be created? Environment DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 Resolution When "auth.token.check.enabled=true" is set in...

Automated process to remove users from Liferay that are no longer in LDAP?

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Issue Is there a way to automatically remove users from Liferay who are no longer in LDAP? Environment Liferay DXP 7.1 Resolution There's no automated process to do this out of the box. However, a feature request...

Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability report on refererPlid or other parameters

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Issue During a penetration test, a Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability may be reported, indicating that you can inject a script into the refererPlid parameter or into the...

When resetting a password, duplicate error messages appear

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Issue Duplicate error messages show up when resetting the password Steps to reproduce: 1. Start and set up Liferay DXP 7.3 SP1 using the setup wizard. The email can be set as test@liferay.com and the password as a...

The behavior of bypassing SAML SSO has changed

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Issue There is a use case in which a subset of users are meant to bypass SAML SSO and login directly to the Liferay SP. On Liferay 7.2 dxp-8, users successfully used the following URL to achieve this:...

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 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...

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...

How to prevent user enumeration attacks through the Forgot Password functionality

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Issue Insecure default configuration may allow remote attackers to enumerate users' email addresses via the forgot password functionality. This can be a risk in the case of public-facing deployments. Environment...

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