CVE-2026-6553 (GCVE-0-2026-6553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-21 10:04 – Updated: 2026-04-21 13:20
VLAI
Title
TYPO3 CMS Stores Cleartext Password in User Settings Module
Summary
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.
Severity
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-21 13:20 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext storage of sensitive information
Assigner
TYPO3 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 74 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
TYPO3 TYPO3 CMS Affected: 14.2.0 , < 14.3.0 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:typo3:typo3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Martin Clewing Garvin Hicking Stefan Bürk Oliver Hader
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