CVE-2025-62275 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-863 vulnerability in com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.web. A fix is available for com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.web — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Liferay Portal and DXP do not check permissions of images in a blog entry
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-62275.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.webReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Maven packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Blogs in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.10, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.10, 7.4 GA through update 92, and older unsupported versions does not check permission of images in a blog entry, which allows remote attackers to view the images in a blog entry via crafted URL.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☕Maven | com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.web | all versions | 6.0.19com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.web:6.0.19 |
Affected Products
digital experience platformliferayliferay portalliferayDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.web, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update com.liferay:com.liferay.blogs.item.selector.web to 6.0.19 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-62275 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-62275 in your dependencies?
Find it across Maven, including transitive dependencies.