Cross-site scripting in Liferay DXP and Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2025-2536

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Cross-site scripting in Liferay DXP and Liferay Enterprise Portal - CVE-2025-2536

Published: March 20, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU105893
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-2536
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the Frontend JS module's layout-taglib/__liferay__/index.js. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Liferay DXP
Liferay Enterprise Portal

How to mitigate CVE-2025-2536

Install update from vendor's website.

Liferay DXP - addressed in versions 2024.Q1.13, 2024.Q3.1, 2024.Q4.0
Liferay Enterprise Portal - update to 7.4.3.129 ga129

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