TYPO3 7 End of Life Date
TYPO3 7 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
TYPO3 7 was released on December 2, 2014 and support ended on December 1, 2018 — a supported lifespan of 4 years, in line with the 3 years and 10 months median for TYPO3 releases. It was not an LTS release; TYPO3 reserves longer patch windows for its LTS versions. The last patch it will ever receive is 7.6.58, published September 12, 2022 — 3 years and 10 months after the published end-of-life date. It has been without security patches for 7 years and 8 months. 5 newer TYPO3 releases have shipped since.
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When TYPO3 7 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running TYPO3 7 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to TYPO3 14 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.