# CVE-2025-43763: Liferay Portal is vulnerable to SSRF through custom object attachment fields

> Attackers can exploit SSRF in custom object attachments to make unauthorized requests to external resources, potentially accessing internal data.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 9 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-477q-x55m-j38g

## What is CVE-2025-43763?

CVE-2025-43763 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 8 Sep 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exist in the Liferay Portal  7.4.0 through 7.4.3.131, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13 and 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.20 that affects custom object attachment fields. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the application into making unauthorized requests to other instances, creating new object entries that link to external resources.

Weakness: CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43763?

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


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `com.liferay:com.liferay.object.service` | Maven | All versions | 1.0.208 |
| `com.liferay:com.liferay.object.service` | Maven | All versions | 1.0.208 |

Products: Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-43763?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.object.service to 1.0.208 or later.

## Is CVE-2025-43763 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43763 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Liferay Digital Experience Platform

- [CVE-2024-8980](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8980/): Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF in the Script Console (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2023-42496](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42496/): Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2023-42498](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42498/): Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-25147](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25147/): Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2024-26269](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26269/): Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (critical 9.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-43763 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-43763 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 8 Sep 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43763 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected packages and fixed versions:
- com.liferay:com.liferay.object.service (Maven): affected all versions; fixed in 1.0.208
- com.liferay:com.liferay.object.service (Maven): affected all versions; fixed in 1.0.208

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43763/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43763/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-43763
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43763
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-43763

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-43763/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.
