CVE-2025-47940 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-47940

TYPO3 CMS Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to System Maintainer

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

typo3
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.50, >= 11.0.0, < 11.5.44, >= 12.0.0, < 12.4.31, >= 13.0.0, < 13.4.12

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2025
Last Modified: May 20th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-283

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.