CVE-2006-6690: TYPO3

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rtehtmlarea/pi1/class.tx_rtehtmlarea_pi1.php in Typo3 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, 3.7 and 3.8 with the rtehtmlarea extension, and 4.1 beta allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the userUid parameter to rtehtmlarea/htmlarea/plugins/SpellChecker/spell-check-logic.php, and possibly another vector.

Affected products

• TYPO3 TYPO3: version 3.7.0 only; version 3.8 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only

Published 2006-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.