Missing authorization in Concrete CMS
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- 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 through 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the block alias route (Process::alias() in concrete/controllers/backend/block/process.php).It does not verify that the referenced block is genuinely orphaned on the target page, nor that the caller holds any permission over the source block. A user granted only an area-scoped add_block_to_area delegation on their own page can therefore pass any block ID on the site: the source block's content is duplicated into an area the rogue editor controls, disclosing that content, and the original block is then force-deleted in the same request, destroying arbitrary site content. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 5.9 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Yonatan Drori from Tenzai for reporting.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
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-2026-81909
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9xmc-5q7j-x4fm
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-2026-81909 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-81909 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9xmc-5q7j-x4fm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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