CVE-2025-43783: Liferay Portal is vulnerable to Reflected XSS attack through get_editor path

CVE-2025-43783 · Severity: medium · CVSS 4 · Published 2025-09-10

Liferay Portal is vulnerable to Reflected XSS attack through get_editor path

Technologies: com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web (Maven). Vendors: Maven.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-43783 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-43783 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-43783?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4, published 10 September 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=5.0.76,fixed=5.0.102.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-43783?
Yes. com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web (Maven): upgrade to 5.0.102 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-43783?
Check whether you run com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web (Maven) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web (Maven): upgrade to 5.0.102 or later
    # set com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web to 5.0.102 in your pom.xml or build.gradle

Affected products

  • com.liferay:com.liferay.frontend.editor.ckeditor.web (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=5.0.76,fixed=5.0.102

Identifiers

  • CVE-2025-43783
  • GHSA-jhgr-j9cj-8j62

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