CVE-2025-47940 (GCVE-0-2025-47940)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-20 14:06
Modified
2025-05-20 14:35
Severity ?
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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TYPO3 typo3 Version: >= 10.0.0, < 10.4.50
Version: >= 11.0.0, < 11.5.44
Version: >= 12.0.0, < 12.4.31
Version: >= 13.0.0, < 13.4.12
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