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Contao

Accessible open-source CMS for professional websites

Content Management Systems ★ 444 stars Medium setup LGPL-3.0

Contao is an open-source content management system focused on producing accessible, standards-compliant websites. It is built on Symfony components and offers a flexible front-end module system.

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Key features

  • Accessibility-focused output
  • Front-end module system
  • Granular permissions
  • Built on Symfony

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Strong accessibility support
  • Good for agencies

Trade-offs

  • Smaller community
  • Less known outside Europe

Is Contao secure?

OSV.dev lists 45 published advisories for Contao. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-107845, published 2026-10-09 (5 days ago), fixed in 5.3.50, 5.7.12

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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