CVE-2025-43793 Liferay Portal has Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Remote attackers sharing a TLD can read application cookies due to incorrect subdomain identification, exposing sensitive session data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-43793?
CVE-2025-43793 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 15 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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 may incorrectly identify the subdomain of a domain name and create a supercookie, which allows remote attackers who control a website that share the same TLD to read cookies set by the application.
Weakness: CWE-1284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43793?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl and com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.kernel. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl Maven | All versions | 96.0.0 |
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl Maven | All versions | 96.0.0 |
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-2025-43793?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl to 96.0.0 or later.
Is CVE-2025-43793 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43793 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-xvgg-9h29-4g34.