Liferay Portal/DXP Attachment Field unrestricted upload
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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| 6.9 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal and DXP and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Attachment Field Handler. Such manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-43750. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal and DXP (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Attachment Field Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.1, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.1 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.0 through 2024.Q2.13, 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.14 and 7.4 GA through update 92 allows remote unauthenticated users (guests) to upload files via the form attachment field without proper validation, enabling extension obfuscation and bypassing MIME type checks.
The advisory is available at liferay.dev. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-43750 since 04/17/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/18/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1608.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-28008). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.
Product
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License
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.9
VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
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NVD Base Score: 6.5
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Unrestricted uploadCWE: CWE-434 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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ATT&CK: 🔒
Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
04/17/2025 CVE reserved08/20/2025 Advisory disclosed
08/20/2025 VulDB entry created
12/18/2025 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Advisory: liferay.devStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2025-43750 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-43750
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-320786
EUVD: 🔒
Entry
Created: 08/20/2025 15:49Updated: 12/18/2025 16:16
Changes: 08/20/2025 15:49 (65), 09/18/2025 02:29 (1), 09/18/2025 03:36 (1), 12/18/2025 16:16 (12)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103
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