CVE-2025-62259: Liferay Portal Does Not Limit Access to APIs Before Email Verification

CVE-2025-62259 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.4 · Published 2025-10-27

Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.109, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.4, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 35, and older unsupported versions does not limit access to APIs before a user has verified their email address, which allows remote users to access and edit content via the API.

Technologies: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven). Vendors: Maven.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-62259 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-62259 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-62259?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.4, published 27 October 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=7.4.0-ga1,fixed=7.4.3.110.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-62259?
Yes. com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven): upgrade to 7.4.3.110 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-62259?
Check whether you run com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (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.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven): upgrade to 7.4.3.110 or later
    # set com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom to 7.4.3.110 in your pom.xml or build.gradle

Affected products

  • com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom (Maven) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=7.4.0-ga1,fixed=7.4.3.110

Identifiers

  • CVE-2025-62259
  • GHSA-gv7w-jh8g-vr73

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