CVE-2025-43738: Liferay Digital Experience Platform

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.132, and Liferay DXP 2025.Q2.0 through 2025.Q2.8, 2025.Q1.0 through 2025.Q1.15, 2024.Q4.0 through 2024.Q4.7, 2024.Q3.1 through 2024.Q3.13, 2024.Q2.1 through 2024.Q2.13 and 2024.Q1.1 through 2024.Q1.19 allows a remote authenticated user to inject JavaScript code via _com_liferay_expando_web_portlet_ExpandoPortlet_displayType parameter.

Affected products

• Liferay Digital Experience Platform: from 2024.q1.1, before 2024.q1.20 (fixed in 2024.q1.20); from 2024.Q2.1, up to and including 2024.Q2.13; from 2024.q3.1, up to and including 2024.q3.13; from 2024.q4.0, up to and including 2024.q4.7; from 2025.Q1.0, before 2025.Q1.16 (fixed in 2025.Q1.16); from 2025.Q2.0, before 2025.Q2.9 (fixed in 2025.Q2.9)
• Liferay Liferay Portal: from 7.4.0, up to and including 7.4.3.132

Published 2025-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.