CMS

TYPO3

Verified detail: Democratically governed open-source CMS project.

CategoryCMS
Best suited to

Editorial sites and structured publishing.

CMS market share0.5%

Key facts

Verified detailDemocratically governed open-source CMS project
Best suited toEditorial sites and structured publishing.
Before you commitBefore choosing: who handles hosting, security updates and backups?
Pricing & plansFree license; hosting billed separately Official website ↗
Sourcetypo3.org ↗

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TYPO3 — Official website

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Getting Started With TYPO3 · TYPO3

Pricing & plans

Free license; hosting billed separately

Software license only; hosting and operations cost extra.

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Usage by country

CountryLive websites
🇩🇪 Germany126,404
🇦🇹 Austria16,830
🇧🇼 Botswana15,547
🇺🇸 United States15,134
🇧🇾 Belarus13,723
🇨🇭 Switzerland13,434
🇳🇮 Nicaragua7,853
🇧🇪 Belgium7,348
🇸🇭 St. Helena4,079
🇸🇳 Senegal3,499

Live websites detected by BuiltWith. Leading countries; partial coverage. · Source ↗

Company

Company nameTYPO3 Association
CountrySwitzerland
FoundersKasper Skårhøj
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Timeline 5

  1. Governance

    TYPO3 publicly launched TYPO3 Association.

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  2. Product update

    TYPO3 6.0 introduced the File Abstraction Layer, centralizing file references and metadata while supporting local and remote storage backends.

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  3. Product update

    TYPO3 12 LTS introduced CKEditor 5 for visual content editing.

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  4. Security

    CVE-2024-25120 allowed a valid backend user to access resources beyond their permissions through t3:// links under a valid link-handler configuration.

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  5. Product update

    TYPO3 13 LTS added right-to-left administration, improving editing for Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu users.

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Known incidents

TYPO3 t3:// resource access disclosure

CVE-2024-25120 allowed a valid backend user to access resources beyond their permissions through t3:// links under a valid link-handler configuration. TYPO3 published patched versions for affected release lines.

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