CVE-2025-43795 Liferay Portal's System, Instance and Site Settings are vulnerable to Open Redirect

What is CVE-2025-43795?

CVE-2025-43795 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 12 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

Open redirect vulnerability in the System Settings in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.3.101, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4 , 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the _com_liferay_configuration_admin_web_portlet_SystemSettingsPortlet_redirect parameter.

Open redirect vulnerability in the Instance Settings in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.3.101, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4 , 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the _com_liferay_configuration_admin_web_portlet_InstanceSettingsPortlet_redirect parameter.

Open redirect vulnerability in the Site Settings in Liferay Portal 7.1.0 through 7.4.3.101, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4 , 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external URLs via the _com_liferay_site_admin_web_portlet_SiteSettingsPortlet_redirect parameter.

Weakness: CWE-601

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43795?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.configuration.admin.web and com.liferay:com.liferay.site.admin.web. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43795?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.configuration.admin.web to 5.0.76 or later.

Is CVE-2025-43795 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43795 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
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Also known as GHSA-m55r-9fx8-725j.