CVE-2020-28917

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

An issue was discovered in the view_statistics (aka View frontend statistics) extension before 2.0.1 for TYPO3. It saves all GET and POST data of TYPO3 frontend requests to the database. Depending on the extensions used on a TYPO3 website, sensitive data (e.g., cleartext passwords if ext:felogin is installed) may be saved.

Affected products

View Frontend Statistics Project View Frontend Statistics: before 2.0.1 — fixed in 2.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: View Frontend Statistics Project View Frontend Statistics 2.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-ext-sa-2020-019
https://typo3.org/security/advisory/typo3-ext-sa-2020-019

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