CVE-2025-43731

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0 through…

6.9MediumCVSS base score
0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 85% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

Description

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.8, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.1 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.16 and 7.4 GA through update 92 allows an remote authenticated user to inject JavaScript in message board threads and categories.

Timeline

2025
17 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025
ID reserved
By Liferay
18 Aug 20254 months later
18 Aug 2025· 4 months later
Published

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2025-43731, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
LiferayCNA (assigner)	4.0	Medium6.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
NVDNVD · Analyzed	4.0	Medium6.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Affected products

Liferay · Portal
- affected 7.4.0 – ≤ 7.4.3.132
Liferay · DXP
- affected 7.4.13 – ≤ 7.4.13-u92
- affected 2024.Q1.1 – ≤ 2024.Q1.16
- affected 2024Q2.0 – ≤ 2023.Q2.13
- affected 2024.Q3.1 – ≤ 2024.Q3.13
- affected 2024.Q4.0 – ≤ 2024.Q4.7
- affected 2025.Q1.0 – ≤ 2025.Q1.8

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

Mavencom.liferay.portal:release.portal.bomGHSA-3p2m-574v-v257 (opens in a new tab)

References1

https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43731 (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 18 Aug 2025, 18:37 UTC.