CVE-2025-43759 Liferay Portal users are able to add system admin portlets to pages

What is CVE-2025-43759?

CVE-2025-43759 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 22 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.14 and 7.4 GA through update 92 allows admin users of a virtual instance to add pages that are not in the default/main virtual instance, then any tenant can create a list of all other tenants.

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43759?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.layout.impl. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43759?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.layout.impl to 6.0.147 or later.

Is CVE-2025-43759 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43759 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

• CVE-2024-8980 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF in the Script Console Critical 9.6
• CVE-2023-42496 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2023-42498 Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-25147 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-26269 Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting Critical 9.6

All Liferay Digital Experience Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-w3cr-3xw2-rp78.