CVE-2025-62246: 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 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 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:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 13 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 2026-10-25.
What to do
Affected software
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Liferay Portal | Affected
| Fixed in– |
AI-suggested
1. Apply official patches from Liferay as soon as they become available to address the vulnerability directly. 2. Until patches are released, implement strict input validation and output encoding on user name fields and all comment or mention-enabled widgets to neutralize malicious scripts. 3. Restrict the characters allowed in user name fields to exclude HTML tags and JavaScript code. 4. Employ Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to limit script execution sources and reduce XSS impact. 5. Monitor logs and user activity for unusual input patterns or repeated injection attempts. 6. Educate users about phishing and social engineering risks that could facilitate exploitation. 7. Limit user privileges to the minimum necessary to reduce the potential impact of compromised accounts. 8. Consider deploying Web Application Firewalls (WAF) with rules targeting common XSS payloads specific to Liferay portals. 9. Regularly review and audit portal configurations and customizations that might affect input handling. 10. Prepare incident response plans to quickly address any detected exploitation attempts.
Description
Multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.5, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.8, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into a user’s first, middle or last name text field to (1) page comments widget, (2) blog entry comments, (3) document and media document comments, (4) message board messages, (5) wiki page comments or (6) other widgets/apps that supports mentions.