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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-6553 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  TYPO3
CVSS-B 7.3 HIGH
Vector:  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

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/TYPO3/typo3/commit/9a6e913f70767f63b322ae3e2d2f4e302624c291 TYPO3
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2026-005 TYPO3

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information TYPO3  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-6553
NVD Published Date:
04/21/2026
NVD Last Modified:
04/21/2026
Source:
TYPO3