Concrete CMS 9.0 to 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Stored XSS via group folder name on the Members > Groups dashboard
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Concrete CMS 9.0.0 to 9.5.2 stored group folder names without sanitization and printed them unescaped on the Members > Groups dashboard page, resulting in stored cross-site scripting. The add and edit group-folder handlers stored the submitted folder name without neutralizing HTML, and the group search grid returned it without output encoding, so the Groups dashboard rendered the name as live markup. An authenticated user holding the Add Group Folder permission could store a script payload as a folder name that executed in the session of any administrator who viewed the Groups dashboard, enabling session and token theft and any action available in the administrator's context. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 7.3 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Lý Chấn Hưng (hunglyvn) for reporting.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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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-2026-81899
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3cxg-c254-578m
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-2026-81899 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-81899 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3cxg-c254-578m · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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