CVE-2026-6553

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Analyzed - f4fb688c-4412-4426-b4b8-421ecf27b14a

Published

2026-04-21

Last modified

2026-10-25

Weaknesses

CWE-312

Affected products

• Typo3 (Typo3)

References

• https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2026-005
• https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/9a6e913f70767f63b322ae3e2d2f4e302624c291