liferay/liferay-portal · Security
Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via backURL Paramter
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vjwr-cqwf-6q96
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-43737
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 5.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/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
Description
A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q2.0 through 2025.Q2.8 and 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.15 allows a remote authenticated user to inject JavaScript code via _com_liferay_journal_web_portlet_JournalPortlet_backURL parameter.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43737 ↗
- https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43737 ↗
- https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/eded63b8822923f9392d94ba1818beb63629b79f ↗
- https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-18292 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vjwr-cqwf-6q96 ↗