CVE-2025-47940

TYPO3 CMS Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to System Maintainer

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: May 20, 2025
Updated: May 20, 2025
Reserved: May 14, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-283 Unverified Ownership

Affected Products

Product	Versions
typo3TYPO3	>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.50Affected >= 11.0.0, < 11.5.44Affected >= 12.0.0, < 12.4.31Affected >= 13.0.0, < 13.4.12Affected

References

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