About “Contao”

A curated feed of “Contao”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 44 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 6 were published. Average CVSS is 6.5 (all time; 4.9 over 365d), and 34% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor, CWE-87 - Improper Neutralization of Alternate XSS Syntax, CWE-351 - Insufficient Type Distinction.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: contao

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestPremier SupportEOLLTS
5.75.7.5LTS
5.65.6.11 Expired
5.55.5.16 Expired
5.45.4.14 Expired
5.35.3.46LTS
5.25.2.10 Expired
5.15.1.11 Expired
5.05.0.10 Expired
4.134.13.58 ExpiredLTS
4.124.12.7 Expired
4.114.11.9 Expired
4.104.10.7 Expired
4.94.9.42 ExpiredLTS
4.44.4.57 ExpiredLTS
3.53.5.40 ExpiredLTS

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2025-11-25
Low

CVE-2025-65961

Contao is an Open Source CMS. From version 4.0.0 to before 4.13.57, before 5.3.42, and before 5.6.5, it is possible to inject code into the template output that will be executed in the browser in the…

Medium

CVE-2025-65960

Contao is an Open Source CMS. From version 4.0.0 to before 4.13.57, before 5.3.42, and before 5.6.5, back end users with precise control over the contents of template closures can execute arbitrary P…

2025-08-28
Medium

CVE-2025-57759

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions starting from 5.3.0 and prior to 5.3.38 and 5.6.1, under certain conditions, back end users may be able to edit fields of pages and articles without having t…

Medium

CVE-2025-57758

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions starting from 5.0.0 and prior to 5.3.38 and 5.6.1, the table access voter in the back end doesn't check if a user is allowed to access the corresponding modu…

Medium

CVE-2025-57757

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions starting from 5.0.0 and prior to 5.3.38 and 5.6.1, if a news feed contains protected news archives, their news items are not filtered and become publicly ava…

Medium

CVE-2025-57756

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions starting from 4.9.14 and prior to 4.13.56, 5.3.38, and 5.6.1, protected content elements that are rendered as fragments are indexed and become publicly avail…

2025-03-18
Medium

CVE-2025-29790

Contao is an Open Source CMS. Users can upload SVG files with malicious code, which is then executed in the back end and/or front end. This vulnerability is fixed in Contao 4.13.54, 5.3.30, or 5.5.6.

2024-10-02
Medium

CVE-2024-45965

Contao before 5.5.6 allows XSS via an SVG document. This affects (in contao/core-bundle in Composer) 4.x before 4.13.54, 5.0.x through 5.3.x before 5.3.30, and 5.4.x and 5.5..x before 5.5.6.

2024-09-23
Medium

CVE-2024-47069

Oveleon Cookie Bar is a cookie bar is for the Contao Open Source CMS and allows a visitor to define cookie & privacy settings for the website. Prior to versions 1.16.3 and 2.1.3, the `block/locale` e…

2024-09-17
Medium

CVE-2024-45604

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In affected versions authenticated users in the back end can list files outside the document root in the file selector widget. Users are advised to update to Contao 4.13…

High

CVE-2024-45398

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In affected versions a back end user with access to the file manager can upload malicious files and execute them on the server. Users are advised to update to Contao 4.1…

Medium

CVE-2024-45612

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In affected versions an untrusted user can inject insert tags into the canonical tag, which are then replaced on the web page (front end). Users are advised to update to…

2024-04-09
Medium

CVE-2024-30262

Contao is an open source content management system. Prior to version 4.13.40, when a frontend member changes their password in the personal data or the password lost module, the corresponding remembe…

High

CVE-2024-28235

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.9.0 and prior to versions 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, when checking for broken links on protected pages, Contao sends the cookie heade…

Medium

CVE-2024-28234

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 2.0.0 and prior to versions 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, it is possible to inject CSS styles via BBCode in comments. Installations are on…

Low

CVE-2024-28191

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.0.0 and prior to version 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, it is possible to inject insert tags in frontend forms if the output is structure…

Medium

CVE-2024-28190

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.0.0 and prior to version 4.13.40 and 5.3.4, users can inject malicious code in filenames when uploading files (back end and f…

2023-09-21
Medium

CVE-2018-5478

Contao 3.x before 3.5.32 allows XSS via the unsubscribe module in the frontend newsletter extension.

2023-07-25
Medium

CVE-2023-36806

Contao is an open source content management system. Starting in version 4.0.0 and prior to versions 4.9.42, 4.13.28, and 5.1.10, it is possible for untrusted backend users to inject malicious code in…

2023-04-25
Medium

CVE-2023-29200

Contao is an open source content management system. Prior to versions 4.9.40, 4.13.21, and 5.1.4, logged in users can list arbitrary system files in the file manager by manipulating the Ajax request.…

2022-05-06
High

CVE-2022-24899

Contao is a powerful open source CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications. In versions of Contao prior to 4.13.3 it is possible to inject code into the canoni…

2022-03-18
Critical

CVE-2022-26265

Contao Managed Edition v1.5.0 was discovered to contain a remote command execution (RCE) vulnerability via the component php_cli parameter.

2021-08-12
Medium

CVE-2021-35955

Contao >=4.0.0 allows backend XSS via HTML attributes to an HTML field. Fixed in 4.4.56, 4.9.18, 4.11.7.

2021-08-11
High

CVE-2021-37627

Contao is an open source CMS that allows creation of websites and scalable web applications. In affected versions it is possible to gain privileged rights in the Contao back end. Installations are on…

High

CVE-2021-37626

Contao is an open source CMS that allows you to create websites and scalable web applications. In affected versions it is possible to load PHP files by entering insert tags in the Contao back end. In…

2021-06-23
Medium

CVE-2021-35210

Contao 4.5.x through 4.9.x before 4.9.16, and 4.10.x through 4.11.x before 4.11.5, allows XSS. It is possible to inject code into the tl_log table that will be executed in the browser when the system…

2020-10-07
Medium

CVE-2020-25768

Contao before 4.4.52, 4.9.x before 4.9.6, and 4.10.x before 4.10.1 have Improper Input Validation. It is possible to inject insert tags in front end forms which will be replaced when the page is rend…

2020-03-16
Medium

CVE-2018-10125

Contao before 4.5.7 has XSS in the system log.

2020-01-29
High

CVE-2012-4383

contao prior to 2.11.4 has a sql injection vulnerability

2020-01-08
Critical

CVE-2014-1860

Contao CMS through 3.2.4 has PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities

2019-12-17
High

CVE-2019-19745

Contao 4.0 through 4.8.5 allows PHP local file inclusion. A back end user with access to the form generator can upload arbitrary files and execute them on the server.

Medium

CVE-2019-19714

Contao 4.8.4 and 4.8.5 has Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. It is possible to inject insert tags into the login module which will be replaced when the page is rendered.

Medium

CVE-2019-19712

Contao 4.0 through 4.8.5 has Insecure Permissions. Back end users can manipulate the details view URL to show pages and articles that have not been enabled for them.

2019-07-09
Critical

CVE-2019-11512

Contao 4.x allows SQL Injection. Fixed in Contao 4.4.39 and Contao 4.7.5.

2019-04-25
Critical

CVE-2017-16558

Contao 3.0.0 to 3.5.30 and 4.0.0 to 4.4.7 contains an SQL injection vulnerability in the back end as well as in the listing module.

2019-04-17
Critical

CVE-2019-10643

Contao 4.7 allows Use of a Key Past its Expiration Date.

High

CVE-2019-10642

Contao 4.7 allows CSRF.

Critical

CVE-2019-10641

Contao before 3.5.39 and 4.x before 4.7.3 has a Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for a Forgotten Password.

Medium

CVE-2018-20028

Contao 3.x before 3.5.37, 4.4.x before 4.4.31 and 4.6.x before 4.6.11 has Incorrect Access Control.

2017-07-21
High

CVE-2017-10993

Contao before 3.5.28 and 4.x before 4.4.1 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local PHP files via a crafted parameter in a URL, aka Directory Traversal.

2017-05-26
Medium

CVE-2015-0269

Directory traversal vulnerability in Contao before 3.2.19, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote authenticated "back end" users to view files outside their file mounts or the document root via unspeci…

2012-03-19
Medium

CVE-2012-1297

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in main.php in Contao (formerly TYPOlight) 2.11.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requ…

2011-11-28
Medium

CVE-2011-4335

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Contao before 2.10.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO to index.php in a (1) teachers.html or (2)…

2011-01-20
Medium

CVE-2011-0508

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in system/modules/comments/Comments.php in Contao CMS 2.9.2, and possibly other versions before 2.9.3, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script…

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