GHSA-vjwr-cqwf-6q96

Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via backURL Paramter

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2025-43737

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.liferay:com.liferay.journal.web	< 5.0.196	5.0.196

Details

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

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q2.0 through 2025.Q2.8 and 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.15 allows a remote authenticated user to inject JavaScript code via _com_liferay_journal_web_portlet_JournalPortlet_backURL parameter.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43737 advisory
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/eded63b8822923f9392d94ba1818beb63629b79f web
https://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal package
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-18292 web
https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43737 web