Missing authorization in Concrete CMS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
Concrete CMS 9.0.0 through 9.5.2 did not enforce a block-level edit-permission check on the Express Form block's control-management actions, which relied solely on CSRF token validation. Because the token is bound to the user and action rather than to a specific block, page, or form, an authenticated user with edit access to one Express Form could reuse a validly obtained token to add, modify, or delete controls on Express Forms they were not authorized to edit, including injecting a control whose value is later rendered as HTML to achieve stored XSS. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 2.0 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Yat Wu for reporting.
Why it matters now
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
No affected products listed by the sources yet.
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 9.0.0 to before 9.5.3 | Vulnerable | Concrete CMS |
- cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.0.0 to before 9.5.3 Vulnerable ·Concrete CMS
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-18426
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g5mv-jcqh-ch66
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-2026-18426 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-18426 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g5mv-jcqh-ch66 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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