CVE-2025-43792 Liferay Portal has External Control of System or Configuration Settings
Authenticated attackers can exfiltrate data to a controlled server via remote staging if they obtain the shared secret and whitelist their server.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-43792?
CVE-2025-43792 is a low-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 15 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Remote staging in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.105, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions does not properly obtain the remote address of the live site from the database which, which allows remote authenticated users to exfiltrate data to an attacker controlled server (i.e., a fake “live site”) via the _com_liferay_exportimport_web_portlet_ExportImportPortlet_remoteAddress and _com_liferay_exportimport_web_portlet_ExportImportPortlet_remotePort parameters. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must also successfully obtain the staging server’s shared secret and add the attacker controlled server to the staging server’s whitelist.
Weakness: CWE-15
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43792?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel Maven | All versions | 130.0.1 |
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel Maven | All versions | 130.0.1 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2025-43792?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel to 130.0.1 or later.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2025-43792 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43792 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
- CVE-2023-42496 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2023-42498 Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2024-25147 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
- CVE-2024-26269 Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vp64-77c6-33h8.