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Cross-Site Scripting in TYPO3's Frontend Login Mailer

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 14, 2022 in TYPO3/typo3 • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

composer typo3/cms (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.29
>= 11.0.0, < 11.5.11

Patched versions

10.4.29
11.5.11
composer typo3/cms-core (Composer)
>= 9.0.0, < 9.5.35
>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.29
>= 11.0.0, < 11.5.11
9.5.35
10.4.29
11.5.11

Description

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  • CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C (4.9)

Problem

User submitted content was used without being properly encoded in HTML emails sent to users. The actually affected components were mail clients used to view those messages.

Solution

Update to TYPO3 versions 9.5.35 ELTS, 10.4.29, 11.5.11 that fix the problem described above.

Credits

Thanks to Christian Seifert who reported this issue and to TYPO3 framework merger Andreas Fernandez who fixed the issue.

References

References

@ohader ohader published to TYPO3/typo3 Jun 14, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 14, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 17, 2022
Reviewed Jun 17, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-31049

GHSA ID

GHSA-h4mx-xv96-2jgm

Source code

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