Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2026-6553

TYPO3 CMS Stores Cleartext Password in User Settings Module

Published Apr 21, 2026Updated Oct 28, 2026OSV record ↗

Severity

CVSS 4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Affected versions

Repository

Affected commits	Fixed by commit
GIT github.com/typo3/typo3 ↗
cfda1147fba7bb5bbe30cf5aedd3277a0a329b3e to before 5b0ba8a1eca8b2ccfa39320a2de66676a2eea151	`5b0ba8a1eca8b2ccfa39320a2de66676a2eea151`
Not specified	`9a6e913f70767f63b322ae3e2d2f4e302624c291`
Also listed as affected (2) `14.2.0` `v14.2.0`

Description

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.

References

Webpackagist.org ↗
Advisorygithub.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/6xxx/CVE-2026-6553.json ↗
Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6553 ↗
Advisorytypo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2026-005 ↗
Fixgithub.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/9a6e913f70767f63b322ae3e2d2f4e302624c291 ↗
Packagegithub.com/TYPO3/typo3 ↗