CVE-2026-6553

high

Published 2026-04-21 · Modified 2026-05-08

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CVSS v3

7.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

7.3

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

VIR risk

7.5

Description

TYPO3 CMS Stores Cleartext Password in User Settings Module

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Packagist	typo3/cms-backend	`>=14.2.0,<14.3.0`	`14.3.0`
COMPOSER	typo3/cms-backend	`= 14.2.0`	`14.3.0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
typo3	typo3	`14.2.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-312

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.