CVE-2025-47940 TYPO3 CMS Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to System Maintainer

What is CVE-2025-47940?

CVE-2025-47940 is a high-severity vulnerability in Typo3 Typo3, published on 20 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-283

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-47940?

8 open source packages ship an affected version, including typo3/cms-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Typo3 Typo3.

How do I fix CVE-2025-47940?

Upgrade typo3/cms-core to a fixed version for your release line: 10.4.50, 11.5.44, 12.4.31 or 13.4.12.

Is CVE-2025-47940 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-47940 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Typo3 Typo3

• CVE-2009-0258 Indexed Search Engine for TYPO3 Command Execution via Metacharacter Injection Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3583 Typo3 SQL injection due to faulty prepared statements Critical 9.8
• CVE-2011-4628 Typo3 Authentication Bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-24814 Persisted Cross-Site Scripting in Frontend Rendering in typo3 High 8.8
• CVE-2021-41113 Cross-Site-Request-Forgery in Backend URI Handling in Typo3 High 8.8

All Typo3 Typo3 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6frx-j292-c844.