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Insecure Default Initialization In Liferay Portal

  • Disclosed: 24.05.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:22

In Liferay Portal 7.3.0 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.2 and earlier the default configuration does not require users to verify their email address, which allows remote attackers to create accounts using fake email addresses or email addresses which they don't control. The portal property company.security.strangers.verify should be set to true.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.1 7.3.1

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1188
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom
Disclosed
24.05.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 11:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-g9mr-9xfc-4gf7 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (159) in the archive
Total entries
159
First → latest
05.2021 10.2025
Without a fix
33
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 18
  • High 25
  • Medium 115
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

Severity:
  1. Liferay Portal Vulnerable to DoS via Crafted Headless API Request
    High CVE-2025-62260 >= 7.4.0-ga1, < 7.4.3.100 7.4.3.100
  2. Liferay Portal Vulnerable to CSRF in Headless APIs
    High CVE-2025-62258 >= 7.4.0-ga1, < 7.4.3.108 7.4.3.108
  3. Liferay Portal Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery
    High CVE-2025-43748 >= 7.0.0-a1, < 7.4.3.120-ga120 7.4.3.120-ga120
  4. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Workflow Component Does Not Check User Permissions
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-38002 >= 7.3.2-ga3, < 7.4.3.112-ga112 7.4.3.112-ga112
  5. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF in the Script Console
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-8980 >= 7.0.0-a1, < 7.4.3.102-GA102 7.4.3.102-GA102
  6. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via the My Account Widget
    High · 8.8 CVE-2024-26271 >= 7.4.3.75, < 7.4.3.112 7.4.3.112
  7. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via the Content Page Editor
    High · 8.8 CVE-2024-26273 >= 7.4.0, < 7.4.3.104 7.4.3.104
  8. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via the Content Page Editor
    High · 8.8 CVE-2024-26272 >= 7.3.2, < 7.4.3.108 7.4.3.108
  9. Liferay Portal Document and Media widget and Liferay DXP vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2023-47795 >= 7.4.3.18, < 7.4.3.102 7.4.3.102
  10. Liferay Portal's Dynamic Data Mapping module's DDMForm and Liferay DXP vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-25603 < 7.4.3.5 7.4.3.5
  11. Liferay Portal Frontend JS module's portlet.js and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-26269 >= 7.2.0, < 7.4.3.38 7.4.3.38
  12. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-26266 < 7.4.3.14 7.4.3.14
  13. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2023-40191 >= 7.4.3.44, < 7.4.3.98 7.4.3.98
  14. Liferay Portal Language Override edit screen and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2023-42498 >= 7.4.3.8, < 7.4.3.98 7.4.3.98
  15. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2023-42496 >= 7.3.3, < 7.4.3.98 7.4.3.98
  16. Liferay Portal Expando module and Liferay DXP vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-25601 <= 7.4.2 no fix
  17. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP's Users Admin module vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-25602 <= 7.4.2 no fix
  18. Liferay Portal Message Board widget and Liferay DXP vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-25152 <= 7.4.2 no fix
  19. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-25147 <= 7.4.1 no fix
  20. Liferay Portal has a Stored XSS with Blog entries (Insecure defaults)
    Critical · 9.0 CVE-2024-25610 < 7.4.3.13 7.4.3.13
  21. Liferay Portal defaults to a low work factor for the default password hashing algorithm
    High · 8.1 CVE-2024-25607 < 7.4.3.14 7.4.3.14
  22. Liferay Portal has an XXE vulnerability in Java2WsddTask._format
    High · 8.0 CVE-2024-25606 < 7.4.3.8 7.4.3.8
  23. Liferay Portal vulnerable to user impersonation
    High · 8.1 CVE-2024-25148 >= 7.2.0, < 7.4.2 7.4.2
  24. Liferay Portal denial of service (memory consumption)
    High · 6.5 CVE-2024-25143 >= 7.2.0, < 7.3.7 7.3.7
  25. Liferay Portal stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2024-25145 < 7.4.3.12 7.4.3.12
  26. Liferay Portal XSS with `p_l_back_url_title` on edit content page
    Critical · 9.6 CVE-2023-47797 >= 7.4.3.94, < 7.4.3.96 7.4.3.96
  27. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to CSRF via the Layout Module
    High · 8.8 CVE-2023-35030 >= 7.4.3.70-ga70, < 7.4.3.77-ga77 7.4.3.77-ga77
  28. Insecure Default Initialization In Liferay Portal this entry
    Medium · 5.3 CVE-2023-33949 >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.1 7.3.1
  29. SQL injection in Liferay Portal
    High · 8.1 CVE-2023-33945 >= 7.3.1, < 7.4.3.18 7.4.3.18
  30. Missing authorization in Liferay portal
    High · 7.5 CVE-2023-33948 >= 7.4.3.67, < 7.4.3.68 7.4.3.68
  31. Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Liferay Portal
    High · 7.5 CVE-2022-42124 >= 7.3.2, < 7.4.3.5 7.4.3.5
  32. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to SQL Injection via Friendly URL Module
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2022-42122 >= 7.3.7, < 7.4.0-ga1 7.4.0-ga1
  33. Path Traversal in Liferay Portal
    High · 7.5 CVE-2022-42123 >= 7.3.3, < 7.4.3.19 7.4.3.19
  34. Path Traversal in Liferay Portal
    High · 7.5 CVE-2022-42125 >= 7.4.3.5, < 7.4.3.48 7.4.3.48
  35. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Has Company Administrator Accounts Vulnerable to Takeovers
    High · 7.2 CVE-2021-33335 >= 7.0.3, < 7.3.5 7.3.5
  36. Liferay Portal Layout Module and Liferay DXP Exposes the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Token in URLs
    High · 7.5 CVE-2021-33338 >= 7.1.0, < 7.3.3 7.3.3
  37. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP insecure default configuration
    High · 7.5 CVE-2021-33321 < 7.3.3 7.3.3
  38. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Vulnerable to Multiple SQL Injections
    High · 8.8 CVE-2021-29053 >= 7.3.5, < 7.3.6 7.3.6
  39. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP Fails to Invalidate CAPTCHA Answers After Use
    High · 7.5 CVE-2021-29047 >= 7.3.4, < 7.3.6 7.3.6
  40. Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP have Insecure Deserialization Vulnerability
    High · 8.1 CVE-2020-15842 < 7.3.0 7.3.0
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