Concrete CMS 9.5.2 and below is vulnerable to Stored XSS in RSS Displayer Block via Unescaped Remote Feed Item title
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Concrete CMS RSS Displayer block below version 9.5.3 rendered remote feed item titles without HTML escaping, resulting in stored cross-site scripting. An attacker able to control a title in a syndicated feed could execute script in the site origin for any visitor to the affected page, including administrators, without holding an account on that site. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 6.0 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks riodrwn 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 names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | Concrete CMS |
- cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·Concrete CMS
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-68528
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rq97-c8jm-449q
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-2026-68528 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-68528 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rq97-c8jm-449q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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