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Publication date: 2025-10-08

Last updated on: 2025-12-15

Assigner: Liferay Inc.

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Notifications widget in Liferay Portal 7.4.3.102 through 7.4.3.111, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.5 and 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted payload injected into (1) a user’s “First Name” text field, (2) a user’s “Middle Name” text field, (3) a user’s “Last Name” text field, (4) the “Other Reason” text field when flagging content, or (5) the name of the flagged content.

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Published

2025-10-08

Last Modified

2025-12-15

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-10-08

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-43771

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
liferay	digital_experience_platform	From 2023.Q3.1 (inc) to 2023.Q3.4 (exc)
liferay	digital_experience_platform	From 2023.q4.0 (inc) to 2023.q4.6 (exc)
liferay	liferay_portal	From 7.4.3.102 (inc) to 7.4.3.112 (exc)

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
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.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability involves multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) issues in the Notifications widget of Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP versions specified. Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML by submitting crafted payloads into certain user input fields such as 'First Name', 'Middle Name', 'Last Name', the 'Other Reason' text field when flagging content, or the name of the flagged content. This allows malicious scripts to be executed in the context of other users viewing the affected content.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of users interacting with the Notifications widget. This can lead to theft of user credentials, session hijacking, defacement, or other malicious actions performed on behalf of the user without their consent.

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