CVE-2016-4056

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Backend component in TYPO3 6.2.x before 6.2.19 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the module parameter when creating a bookmark.

Affected products

typo3: 6.2, 6.2.0-alpha1, 6.2.0-alpha2, 6.2.0-alpha3, 6.2.0-beta1, 6.2.0-beta2 (+26)

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/21/1
https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/cve-pending-stored-cross-site-scripting-in-typo3-bookmarks/
https://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2016-006/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/21/1
https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/cve-pending-stored-cross-site-scripting-in-typo3-bookmarks/
https://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-core/typo3-core-sa-2016-006/

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