CVE-2025-4581 Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery
Pre-authentication blind SSRF in Liferay Portal allows attackers to force server requests to internal systems, enabling network enumeration and potential further exploitation.
- 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-2025-4581?
CVE-2025-4581 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 9 Aug 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 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.4 ,2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.1 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.15, 7.4 GA through update 92 allows a pre-authentication blind SSRF vulnerability in the portal-settings-authentication-opensso-web due to improper validation of user-supplied URLs. An attacker can exploit this issue to force the server to make arbitrary HTTP requests to internal systems, potentially leading to internal network enumeration or further exploitation.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4581?
14 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom and com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions to 7.4.13.u92 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | All versions to 7.4.13.u92 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q1.0 | 2024.Q1.16 |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q1.0 | 2024.Q1.16 |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q2.0 to 2024.Q2.13 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q2.0 to 2024.Q2.13 | None |
8 more packages
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q3.1 to 2024.Q3.13 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q3.1 to 2024.Q3.13 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q4.0 to 2024.Q4.7 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2024.Q4.0 to 2024.Q4.7 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2025.Q1.0 | 2025.Q1.5 |
com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom Maven | From 2025.Q1.0 | 2025.Q1.5 |
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven | From 7.4.0 to 7.4.3.132 | None |
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom Maven | From 7.4.0 to 7.4.3.132 | None |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2025-4581?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.dxp.bom to a fixed version for your release line: 2024.Q1.16 or 2025.Q1.5.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2025-4581 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4581 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-6v93-frf9-2rp8.