CVE-2025-59020 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-59020: TYPO3 CMS Allows Broken Access Control in Edit Document Controller

Vendor Typo3
Product TYPO3 CMS
Weakness CWE-863 · Incorrect authorization
Published January 13, 2026
Last update January 13, 2026

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

Description

By exploiting the defVals parameter, attackers could bypass field‑level access checks during record creation in the TYPO3 backend. This gave them the ability to insert arbitrary data into prohibited exclude fields of a database table for which the user already has write permission for a reduced set of fields. This issue affects TYPO3 CMS versions 10.0.0-10.4.54, 11.0.0-11.5.48, 12.0.0-12.4.40, 13.0.0-13.4.22 and 14.0.0-14.0.1.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

January 13, 2026 CVE published
January 13, 2026 Record updated