Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-j5v7-9xr5-m7gx

TYPO3 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Published May 17, 2022Updated Feb 3, 2026OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2015-8759

Severity

CVSS 3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected versions

typo3/cms Packagist

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Affected	Fixed in
`6.2.0` to before 6.2.16	`6.2.16`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (17) `6.2.0` `6.2.1` `6.2.10` `6.2.10-rc1` `6.2.11` `6.2.12` `6.2.13` `6.2.14` `6.2.15` `6.2.2` `6.2.3` `6.2.4` `6.2.5` `6.2.6` `6.2.7` `6.2.8` `6.2.9`
`7.0.0` to before 7.6.1	`7.6.1`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (10) `7.0.0` `7.0.1` `7.0.2` `7.1.0` `7.2.0` `7.3.0` `7.3.1` `7.4.0` `7.5.0` `7.6.0`

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the typoLink function in TYPO3 6.2.x before 6.2.16 and 7.x before 7.6.1 allows remote authenticated editors to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a link field.

References

Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8759 ↗
Webgithub.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/25a1473907f0f4b2bb0147c661981940c57a4555 ↗
Webgithub.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/de1755a6dcff9b037c6d5a1fa340ba100aff054a ↗
Webgithub.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/typo3/cms/2015-12-15-2.yaml ↗
Packagegithub.com/TYPO3/typo3 ↗
Webtypo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2015-012 ↗
Webtypo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2015-012 ↗
Webweb.archive.org/web/20200228051548/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79250 ↗