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Published Jul. 2, 2025

The potential CSRF for Liferay default logout link (/c/portal/logout)

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Aaron Wang

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Issue

  • Liferay DXP instance default logout link (<Site address>/c/portal/logout) can be accessed from outside of Liferay DXP Instance, ie HTML file.

Step to reproduce

1. Log in to Liferay DXP.
2. Create an HTML file, put the following line <a href="http://localhost:8080/c/portal/logout"/>click</a> in this file
3. Open the HTML file with Chrome
4. Keep the Admin user logged in, click the link on the HTML file
5. Refresh the Liferay DXP 7.2 portal which logged in as Admin user

Result: The logged-in user (Admin user) is logged out

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.2

Resolution

  • According to LPS-13384, this issue was classified as an improvement as of now. 

 

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