CVE-2025-62261 Liferay Portal Stores Password Reset Tokens in Plain Text

What is CVE-2025-62261?

CVE-2025-62261 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Liferay Digital Experience Platform, published on 27 Oct 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.99, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 34, and older unsupported versions stores password reset tokens in plain text, which allows attackers with access to the database to obtain the token, reset a user’s password and take over the user’s account.

Weakness: CWE-312

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-62261?

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

Products include Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Liferay Liferay Portal.

How do I fix CVE-2025-62261?

Upgrade com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.impl to 92.0.2 or later.

Is CVE-2025-62261 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62261 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-xcj6-xpjg-c4xr.