CVE-2026-6553

TYPO3 CMS Stores Cleartext Password in User Settings Module

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Apr 21, 2026
Updated: Apr 21, 2026
Reserved: Apr 17, 2026

Description

Changing backend users' passwords via the user settings module results in storing the cleartext password in the uc and user_settings fields of the be_users database table. This issue affects TYPO3 CMS version 14.2.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.3 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	TYPO3

Weaknesses

CWE-312 Cleartext storage of sensitive information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
TYPO3 CMSTYPO3	14.2.0 to before 14.3.0Affected

References

https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2026-005vendor-advisory
Git commit of main branchpatch

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