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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Captcha text null when using a captcha portlet

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Kanchan Bisht

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Issue

  • CAPTCHA Verification is being failed. This only occurs when using a custom captcha portlet, captcha components from the portal (for example, the "forgot password" page) work properly.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • There is a serveImage method for ResourceRequest (portlet) in the SimpleCaptchaImpl class, but it was removed from CaptchaUtil (the class used in the custom codes by the customer till now) by .
  • It was unused, as local APIs are not accessible to 7.4+ customers. The removal was also registered on .

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