Cross-site request forgery in Concrete CMS
Priority LOW 11CWE-1275Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
Concrete CMS 9 before 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) at concrete/controllers/backend/file approveVersion(). The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v.4.0 score of 2.3 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Yonatan Drori (Tenzai) for reporting.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00115 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed concrete5/concrete5 (Packagist): 9.5.1
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | concrete5/concrete5 (Packagist) | 9.0.0RC1 to before 9.5.1 | 9.5.1 | Patch available | GHSA-44q4-354f-c826 |
- concrete5/concrete5 (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 9.0.0RC1 to before 9.5.1 Fixed in 9.5.1 Patch available GHSA-44q4-354f-c826
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 9.0 to before 9.5.1 | Vulnerable | Concrete CMS |
- cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.0 to before 9.5.1 Vulnerable ·Concrete CMS
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-44q4-354f-c826 concrete5/concrete5 (Packagist) Fixed in 9.5.1 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-8435
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-44q4-354f-c826
References
More Concrete Cms vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-23602 ConcreteCMS v9.4.7 contains a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the File Manager… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2023-23992 A Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Concrete CMS from versions 9.2.0 to 9.2.2… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2023-26495 Concrete CMS before 8.5.13 and 9.x before 9.2.2 allows unauthorized access because… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-14907 Missing authorization in Concrete CMS CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2022-06200 Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5 CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-17294 An issue was discovered in Concrete CMS through 8.5.5. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-8435 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-8435 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-44q4-354f-c826 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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