CVE-2025-43801 Liferay Portal has unchecked input for loop condition vulnerability in XML-RPC
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Liferay Portal via crafted XML-RPC requests due to unchecked loop conditions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-43801?
CVE-2025-43801 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 16 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unchecked input for loop condition vulnerability in XML-RPC in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111, 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 allows remote attackers to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attacks via a crafted XML-RPC request.
Weakness: CWE-606
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43801?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl Maven | All versions | 101.0.0 |
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl Maven | All versions | 101.0.0 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2025-43801?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl to 101.0.0 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-43801 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43801 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-95h4-8mqc-4mpf.