CVE-2025-47940
HIGH7.2EPSS 0.32%TYPO3 Allows Privilege Escalation to System Maintainer
Published: 5/20/2025Modified: 5/20/2025
Also known as:GHSA-6frx-j292-c844
Description
### Problem 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. ### Solution Update to TYPO3 versions 10.4.50 ELTS, 11.5.44 ELTS, 12.4.31 LTS, 13.4.12 LTS that fix the problem described. ### Credits Thanks to Alexander Künzl for reporting this issue, and to TYPO3 core & security team member Oliver Hader for fixing it.
Affected packages (1)
- Packagist/typo3/cms-core>= 10.4.0, < 10.4.50
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47940
- PATCHhttps://github.com/TYPO3-CMS/core
- WEBhttps://github.com/TYPO3-CMS/core/commit/a659cc8c0ae05c44dd7f01d13629cdd2d0b7219b
- WEBhttps://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/security/advisories/GHSA-6frx-j292-c844
- WEBhttps://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2025-016