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Liferay DXP CVE-2025-43822

MEDIUM
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2025-10-07 security@liferay.com
4.8
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: liferay
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as low-privileged Liferay user
  2. Delivery
    Inject script into Terms and Condition Name field (Payment/Delivery Term)
  3. Exploit
    Payload stored in order data
  4. Execution
    Victim opens view order page
  5. Persist
    Script executes in victim browser
  6. Impact
    Session/data theft or action as victim

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an authenticated account with privileges to create or edit a Terms and Conditions entry's Name text field for either a Payment Term or a Delivery Term within Liferay's Commerce/order functionality (hence PR:L, not PR:N). The payload only fires when a second user - typically a back-office operator or customer viewing the order - loads the view order page that renders the stored term (UI:A/user interaction required). Limiting factors: the attacker cannot act fully unauthenticated, the malicious term must be reachable and rendered to a victim, and impact is confined to script execution in the victim's browser context (no direct server compromise, VA:N). This narrows realistic abuse to environments running Liferay Commerce with multi-user order workflows.

Impact

This is a genuinely low-to-moderate priority issue, and the multiple signals are consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 4.0 base score is 4.8 (Medium) with AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A - network reachable but requiring both low-level authentication (PR:L) and victim interaction (UI:A), with only Low confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact (VC:L/VI:L/VA:N). This profile matches a typical stored XSS (CWE-79). The exploitation-probability signals reinforce low urgency: EPSS is 0.22% (12th percentile), the CVE is NOT on the CISA KEV list, and no public exploit code is referenced. There is no SSVC decision data in the input to incorporate. All signals align - low EPSS, no active exploitation, no POC, authenticated-and-interactive attack requirement - so this is a high-CVSS-but-not-really issue only in the sense that even its CVSS is modest. It is a legitimate finding to patch during normal maintenance, not an emergency. No signals conflict; the main caveat is that POC/exploitation status is simply absent from the provided intelligence rather than confirmed negative.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated low-privileged user of a Liferay Commerce store injects a malicious script payload into the Name text field of a Payment Term or Delivery Term in a Terms and Conditions entry. When a back-office operator or another user later opens the view order page that renders that term, the stored script executes in their browser session. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, but stored XSS of this type is straightforward to craft.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 18, 2026

Stored cross-site scripting in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.15 through 7.4.3.111 and Liferay DXP 7.4/2023.Q3-Q4 lets an authenticated user who can edit Terms and Conditions names inject script that executes when another user views an order page. The attacker must have an account with privileges to set Payment Term or Delivery Term name fields, and a victim must load the affected view order page. No public exploit was identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.22% (12th percentile), and the issue is a low-to-moderate priority limited to script execution in the victim's browser.

RemediationAI

No exact fixed release is specified in the provided input data, so confirm and deploy the patched Liferay Portal/DXP version listed in the vendor advisory at https://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-43822. Until patched, restrict creation and editing of Payment Term and Delivery Term names to a minimal trusted administrative group, which reduces the number of users who can store payloads but does not remove risk from existing entries. Review and sanitize or remove HTML from existing Terms and Conditions name values and enforce output encoding when those fields are rendered; this may require application changes or validation rules and can reject legitimate markup. Deploy a Content Security Policy that blocks inline or untrusted script, with the trade-off that some Liferay UI features may require allowlisting adjustments. Limit access to view order pages to necessary users and monitor Terms and Conditions name changes for suspicious HTML or script, which lowers victim exposure but does not fix the underlying storage and rendering flaw.

Affected Packages

maven com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom fix: 7.4.3.112-ga112

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in maven

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

This is CWE-79 stored cross-site scripting in Liferay's Commerce/Terms and Conditions workflow. User-supplied values in the Name field of a Payment Term or Delivery Term are persisted and later rendered on the view order page without sufficient output encoding, so crafted HTML or JavaScript is stored and executed in the browser of a user who views the order. The CPE data maps to liferay:digital_experience_platform, covering Liferay Portal/DXP deployments; the vulnerable surface is the order-view rendering path for terms. The assessed CVSS:3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N reflects network reachability, low attack complexity, an authenticated account with term-editing privileges, required victim interaction, scope change, and low confidentiality/integrity impact with no availability impact. Exploitation does not directly compromise the server; impact is confined to the victim's browser session and the content that session can reach.

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Severity by source

Vendor (liferay) PRIMARY 4.8 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Authenticated low-priv injection (PR:L) with victim rendering required (UI:R); stored XSS executes in another user's browser so scope changes (S:C) with low confidentiality/integrity impact and no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (liferay).

CVSS VectorVendor: liferay

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Active
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
Low
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.15 through 7.4.3.111, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.5, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.8, and 7.4 update 15 through update 92 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted payload injected into a Terms and Condition's Name text field to (1) Payment Terms, or (2) the Delivery Term on the view order page.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 88% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
enterprise portal/DXP platform, common in large orgs but not ubiquitous
Data Quality
3 sources
Confidence: Low

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

24
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +24
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

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