CVE-2025-62238: Liferay Portal · XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting'
Affects Liferay PortalSource CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.8 Medium.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 10:12 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 12% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 Oct 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.
What to do
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Liferay Portal | Affected
| Fixed in– |
AI-suggested
- Apply vendor patches or updates as soon as they become available to address the vulnerability directly.
- Implement strict input validation and output encoding on all user-supplied data fields, especially the 'Name' field in Account Settings, to neutralize malicious scripts.
- Restrict user privileges to the minimum necessary, limiting who can modify account details to reduce the risk of malicious payload injection.
- Employ Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts in browsers.
- Conduct regular security audits and penetration testing focused on web application input handling.
- Monitor logs and user activity for unusual behavior indicative of exploitation attempts.
- Educate users about phishing and social engineering risks that could facilitate exploitation.
- Consider deploying web application firewalls (WAF) with rules tailored to detect and block XSS payloads targeting Liferay portals.
- Isolate critical Liferay instances behind additional authentication layers or network segmentation to reduce exposure.
- Maintain an incident response plan to quickly address any detected exploitation.
Description
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the Membership page in Account Settings in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.21 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 21 through update 92 allows remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a Account's “Name“ text field.