The referrer enforcement introduced with TYPO3-CORE-SA-2020-006 (CVE-2020-11069) 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.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-346",
"CWE-352"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/19xxx/CVE-2026-19418.json",
"cna_assigner": "TYPO3"
}{
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"REFERENCES"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "13.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "13.4.34"
},
{
"introduced": "14.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "14.3.6"
}
]
}