GHSA-ccrc-5vp5-vp5j

Liferay search widget vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-43804

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.portal.search	< 8.0.93	8.0.93

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

There is a Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Liferay Portal's Search widget . Versions 7.4.3.93 through 7.4.3.111, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML via the `_com_liferay_portal_search_web_portlet_SearchPortlet_userId` parameter.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43804 advisory
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/141f3fc8379e56831fae45a5b2647e86dab9d265 web
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal package
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17892 web
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43804 web