CVE-2021-41113

Cross-Site-Request-Forgery in Backend URI Handling in Typo3

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 5, 2021 at 05:20 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:07 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTYPO3

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system released under the GNU GPL. It has been discovered that the new TYPO3 v11 feature that allows users to create and share deep links in the backend user interface is vulnerable to cross-site-request-forgery. The impact is the same as described in TYPO3-CORE-SA-2020-006 (CVE-2020-11069). However, it is not limited to the same site context and does not require the attacker to be authenticated. In a worst case scenario, the attacker could create a new admin user account to compromise the system. To successfully carry out an attack, an attacker must trick his victim to access a compromised system. The victim must have an active session in the TYPO3 backend at that time. The following Same-Site cookie settings in $GLOBALS[TYPO3_CONF_VARS][BE][cookieSameSite] are required for an attack to be successful: SameSite=strict: malicious evil.example.org invoking TYPO3 application at good.example.org and SameSite=lax or none: malicious evil.com invoking TYPO3 application at example.org. Update your instance to TYPO3 version 11.5.0 which addresses the problem described.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

95%
v < 11.5.011.2.0 ≤ v < 11.5.0
Affected range stops below 11.5.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

8.8HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-352

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