CVE-2025-62252 Liferay is Vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Authenticated users can improperly assign organizations to users in different virtual instances, allowing unauthorized data modification.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-62252?
CVE-2025-62252 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 13 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.5, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions allows remote authenticated users in one virtual instance to assign an organization to a user in a different virtual instance via the _com_liferay_users_admin_web_portlet_UsersAdminPortlet_addUserIds parameter.
Weakness: CWE-639
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-62252?
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 | 99.0.0 |
com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl Maven | All versions | 99.0.0 |
Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.
How do I fix CVE-2025-62252?
Upgrade com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl to 99.0.0 or later.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-62252 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62252 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-pfwq-mr9g-gq6m.