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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Unable to assign organizations to users if SPA is disabled

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Pooja Bhambani

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Issue

  • Steps to reproduce:
    1. Create portal-ext.properties with this property to disable SPA: javascript.single.page.application.enabled=false
    2. Navigate Control Panel → Users & Organizations → Organizations → Add Organization → Name it & Save it.
    3. Navigate Control Panel → Users & Organizations → Users → Add user → Fill in the necessary fields & Save it.
    4. Navigate Control Panel → Users & Organizations → Organizations → Assign user to the organization created in step 1.
    Expected result: The user is assigned correctly.
    Actual result: The process simply froze and this WARN is logged:

    WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-1][SecurityPortletContainerWrapper:404] User 20123 is not allowed to access URL http://localhost:8080/group/guest/~/controlpanel/manage and portlet comliferayusersadminwebportlet_UsersAdminPortlet: User 20123 did not provide a valid CSRF token for com.liferay.portlet.SecurityPortletContainerWrapper

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • The observed behavior is a known Liferay DXP bug which has been addressed in Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 81.

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