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CVE-2025-47940

TYPO3 CMS Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to System Maintainer



Description

TYPO3 is an open source, PHP based web content management system. Starting in version 10.0.0 and prior to versions 10.4.50 ELTS, 11.5.44 ELTS, 12.4.31 LTS, and 13.4.12 LTS, administrator-level backend users without system maintainer privileges can escalate their privileges and gain system maintainer access. Exploiting this vulnerability requires a valid administrator account. Users should update to TYPO3 version 10.4.50 ELTS, 11.5.44 ELTS, 12.4.31 LTS, or 13.4.12 LTS to fix the problem.

Reserved 2025-05-14 | Published 2025-05-20 | Updated 2025-05-20 | Assigner GitHub_M


HIGH: 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-283: Unverified Ownership

Product status

>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.50
affected

>= 11.0.0, < 11.5.44
affected

>= 12.0.0, < 12.4.31
affected

>= 13.0.0, < 13.4.12
affected

References

github.com/.../typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-6frx-j292-c844

typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2025-016

cve.org (CVE-2025-47940)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-47940)

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