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CVE-2025-43737

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-43737 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Liferay Portal 7.4.3.132 and specific versions of Liferay DXP. An authenticated attacker can inject malicious JavaScript code through the _com_liferay_journal_web_portlet_JournalPortlet_backURL parameter. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity by a low-privileged user, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2025.Q1.0, < 2025.Q1.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2025.Q2.0, < 2025.Q2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:digital_experience_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.4.0, <= 7.4.3.132CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:liferay:liferay_portal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.1MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.liferay:com.liferay.journal.webFixed in: 5.0.196

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-vjwr-cqwf-6q96medium

Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via backURL Paramter

Aug 19, 2025

References

liferay.dev / portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43737
Vendor Advisory