CVE-2025-62261
EPSS 0.03%Liferay Portal Stores Password Reset Tokens in Plain Text
Published: 10/28/2025Modified: 11/15/2025
Description
Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.99, 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 34, and older unsupported versions stores password reset tokens in plain text, which allows attackers with access to the database to obtain the token, reset a user’s password and take over the user’s account.
Affected packages (2)
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:com.liferay.portal.implfrom 0, < 92.0.2
- Maven/com.liferay.portal:release.portal.bom>= 7.4.0-ga1, < 7.4.3.100
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62261
- PATCHhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal
- WEBhttps://github.com/liferay/liferay-portal/commit/b228c7878f2ed5ad8dbc1ff7ec9b5e6d53bb4b5c
- WEBhttps://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPE-17785
- WEBhttps://liferay.dev/portal/security/known-vulnerabilities/-/asset_publisher/jekt/content/CVE-2025-62261