CVE-2025-62260 Liferay Portal Vulnerable to DoS via Crafted Headless API Request

High 7.1 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause denial of service by requesting excessive objects from the Headless API without limits.

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-2025-62260?

CVE-2025-62260 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 27 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.99, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions does not limit the number of objects returned from Headless API requests, which allows remote attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on the application by executing a request that returns a large number of objects.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-62260?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom. It affects 2 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom MavenFrom 7.4.0-ga17.4.3.100
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom MavenFrom 7.4.0-ga17.4.3.100

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2025-62260?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom to 7.4.3.100 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-2025-62260 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62260 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Liferay Digital Experience Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vgqx-447m-wvcj.

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