CVE-2025-4604 Liferay Portal CAPTCHA Bypass for Gogo Shell

What is CVE-2025-4604?

CVE-2025-4604 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 4 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The vulnerable code can bypass the Captcha check in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.80 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.19, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q3.0 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.15 and 7.4 update 80 through update 92 and then attackers can run scripts in the Gogo shell

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4604?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay:com.liferay.captcha.impl. It affects 2 products.

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2025-4604?

Upgrade com.liferay:com.liferay.captcha.impl to 4.0.17 or later.

Is CVE-2025-4604 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4604 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-3j6h-5v68-hvqg.