Liferay Portal/DXP Search Widget cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Liferay Portal and DXP. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Search Widget. Such manipulation of the argument _com_liferay_portal_search_web_portlet_SearchPortlet_userId leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-43804. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Liferay Portal and DXP (unknown version). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Search Widget. The manipulation of the argument _com_liferay_portal_search_web_portlet_SearchPortlet_userId with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Search widget in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.93 through 7.4.3.111, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the _com_liferay_portal_search_web_portlet_SearchPortlet_userId parameter.

The advisory is available at liferay.dev. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-43804 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. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 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-2025-29663). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

04/17/2025 CVE reserved
09/17/2025 +153 days Advisory disclosed
09/17/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/07/2025 +51 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: liferay.dev
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-43804 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-43804
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-324602
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/17/2025 07:43
Updated: 11/07/2025 22:50
Changes: 09/17/2025 07:43 (66), 09/17/2025 12:44 (1), 11/07/2025 22:50 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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