TYPO3 up to 13.4.33/14.3.5 Referrer Enforcement cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in TYPO3 up to 13.4.33/14.3.5. This affects an unknown function of the component Referrer Enforcement. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-19418. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in TYPO3 up to 13.4.33/14.3.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Referrer Enforcement. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The referrer enforcement introduced with TYPO3-CORE-SA-2020-006 https://news.typo3.com/security/advisory/typo3-core-sa-2020-006 ( CVE-2020-11069 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord ) became ineffective in TYPO3 v13.0, where TYPO3 CMS started serving the backend and Install Tool applications from the site's main entry script instead of the dedicated typo3/ directory. Whether a request originated from the backend or Install Tool itself was determined by comparing the referrer against the directory of the entry script, which since then is the site root. As a consequence, requests originating from any script running on one of the TYPO3 instance's own domains, such as a frontend page, were accepted by backend routes and Install Tool endpoints. Attackers able to execute JavaScript on one of those domains, for instance by exploiting a cross-site scripting vulnerability, could invoke these endpoints via Fetch/XHR with the privileges of an authenticated victim's user session. This issue affects TYPO3 CMS versions 13.0.0-13.4.33 and 14.0.0-14.3.5.

The advisory is available at typo3.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-19418 since 08/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Content Management System

Name

• TYPO3

Version

• 13.4.0
• 13.4.1
• 13.4.2
• 13.4.3
• 13.4.4
• 13.4.5
• 13.4.6
• 13.4.7
• 13.4.8
• 13.4.9
• 13.4.10
• 13.4.11
• 13.4.12
• 13.4.13
• 13.4.14
• 13.4.15
• 13.4.16
• 13.4.17
• 13.4.18
• 13.4.19
• 13.4.20
• 13.4.21
• 13.4.22
• 13.4.23
• 13.4.24
• 13.4.25
• 13.4.26
• 13.4.27
• 13.4.28
• 13.4.29
• 13.4.30
• 13.4.31
• 13.4.32
• 13.4.33
• 14.3.0
• 14.3.1
• 14.3.2
• 14.3.3
• 14.3.4
• 14.3.5

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://typo3.org/

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