diff --git a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/ContentObjectRenderer.php b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/ContentObjectRenderer.php
index 55026bade2d34addaffa9469364e21c8432b38fa..86f8639625ebdec160a25ab936822a6fb22a1f3b 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/ContentObjectRenderer.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Classes/ContentObject/ContentObjectRenderer.php
@@ -4039,6 +4039,7 @@ class ContentObjectRenderer implements LoggerAwareInterface
     public function getImgResource($file, $fileArray)
     {
         $importedFile = null;
+        $fileReference = null;
         if (empty($file) && empty($fileArray)) {
             return null;
         }
@@ -4059,6 +4060,7 @@ class ContentObjectRenderer implements LoggerAwareInterface
             if ($file instanceof File) {
                 $fileObject = $file;
             } elseif ($file instanceof FileReference) {
+                $fileReference = $file;
                 $fileObject = $file->getOriginalFile();
             } else {
                 try {
@@ -4105,7 +4107,7 @@ class ContentObjectRenderer implements LoggerAwareInterface
                 $processingConfiguration['noScale'] = $this->stdWrapValue('noScale', $fileArray ?? []);
                 $processingConfiguration['additionalParameters'] = $this->stdWrapValue('params', $fileArray ?? []);
                 $processingConfiguration['frame'] = (int)$this->stdWrapValue('frame', $fileArray ?? []);
-                if (isset($fileReference)) {
+                if ($fileReference instanceof FileReference) {
                     $processingConfiguration['crop'] = $this->getCropAreaFromFileReference($fileReference, $fileArray);
                 } else {
                     $processingConfiguration['crop'] = $this->getCropAreaFromFromTypoScriptSettings($fileObject, $fileArray);
diff --git a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/ContentObjectRendererTest.php b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/ContentObjectRendererTest.php
index 24cfad0f5c6c2473f8559357be202ef4b5e65266..121bf132cdb6bbb7ad0bdf75f18618b8e094f2b9 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/ContentObjectRendererTest.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/ContentObjectRendererTest.php
@@ -740,4 +740,27 @@ And another one';
             self::assertSame($expectedParams, $jsonDecodedArray);
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @test
+     */
+    public function getImgResourceRespectsFileReferenceObjectCropData(): void
+    {
+        $this->importCSVDataSet(__DIR__ . '/DataSet/FileReferences.csv');
+        $fileReferenceData = [
+            'uid' => 1,
+            'uid_local' => 1,
+            'crop' => '{"default":{"cropArea":{"x":0,"y":0,"width":0.5,"height":0.5},"selectedRatio":"NaN","focusArea":null}}',
+        ];
+        $fileReference = new FileReference($fileReferenceData);
+
+        $subject = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(ContentObjectRenderer::class);
+        $result = $subject->getImgResource($fileReference, []);
+
+        $expectedWidth = 512;
+        $expectedHeight = 341;
+
+        self::assertEquals($expectedWidth, $result[0]);
+        self::assertEquals($expectedHeight, $result[1]);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/DataSet/FileReferences.csv b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/DataSet/FileReferences.csv
index d44afc82297d39d10c54544e358b44d6bc82fc45..a4c95ba00ff1c4e32f8da4d8d767d395960a0bd0 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/DataSet/FileReferences.csv
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/Tests/Functional/ContentObject/DataSet/FileReferences.csv
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@
 "sys_file_reference",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 ,"uid","pid","title","uid_local","uid_foreign","sys_language_uid","l10n_parent","t3ver_wsid","t3ver_state","t3ver_stage","t3ver_oid","deleted","tablenames","fieldname","sorting_foreign","table_local","description","alternative","link","l10n_diffsource"
 ,1,1,"T3BOARD",1,297,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"tt_content","image",2,"sys_file",,,,
+"sys_file_metadata",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
+,uid,pid,sys_language_uid,l10n_parent,l10n_state,t3_origuid,l10n_diffsource,t3ver_oid,t3ver_wsid,t3ver_state,t3ver_stage,file,title,width,height,description,alternative,categories
+,1,0,0,0,,0,,0,0,0,0,1,,1024,683,,,0,