CVE-2025-43814 Liferay Portal and DXP audit events record password reminder answers
Authenticated users can retrieve other users' password reminder answers from audit logs, exposing sensitive security questions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-43814?
CVE-2025-43814 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 22 Sep 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.112, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.8, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions the audit events records a user’s password reminder answer, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain a user’s password reminder answer via the audit events.
Weakness: CWE-201
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43814?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.audit.event.generators.user.management. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.audit.event.generators.user.management Maven | All versions | 5.0.13 |
com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.audit.event.generators.user.management Maven | All versions | 5.0.13 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2025-43814?
Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.security.audit.event.generators.user.management to 5.0.13 or later.
Is CVE-2025-43814 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43814 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-ph63-chvv-8x46.