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CVE-2026-8434· NVD / CVE Program· CNA ConcreteCMS

Concrete CMS 9 before 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) at concrete/controllers/backend/file rescanMultiple()

Concrete CMS 9 before 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) at concrete/controllers/backend/file rescanMultiple(). 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.

LowCVSS 2.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
May 21, 2026
Updated
Jul 23, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 8th percentile
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Action score

9

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
9 / 40 · 2.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · ConcreteCMS
2.3
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

Affected systems

VendorProduct
concretecmsconcrete cms

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • concretecms concrete cms9.0.0 and later · before 9.5.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ConcreteCMS). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Concrete CMS Concrete CMS

    • 9.0 and later · up to and including 9.5.0affected · git

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Packagistconcrete5/concrete5from 9.0.0RC1 · before 9.5.19.5.1

Same product

concretecms: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2022-21829Concrete CMS Versions 9.0.0 through 9.0.2 and 8.5.7 and below can download zip files over HTTP and execute code from those zip files which c
    40Plan
  • CVE-2023-48648Concrete CMS before 8.5.13 and 9.x before 9.2.2 allows unauthorized access because directories can be created with insecure permissions.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2021-22958A Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability was found in concrete5 < 8.5.5 that allowed a decimal notation encoded IP address to bypass the
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2021-40098An issue was discovered in Concrete CMS through 8.5.5.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-8134Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to Authenticated RCE via Composer customTemplate Path Traversal leading to PHP File Inclusion
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2022-30117Concrete 8.5.7 and below as well as Concrete 9.0 through 9.0.2 allow traversal in /index.php/ccm/system/file/upload which could result in an
    37Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Packagist:concrete5/concrete59.5.1Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-81400 days apartConcrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to CSRF on download() in the package install controller
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-84170 days apartConcrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to CSRF in do_update() in the package update controller
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-84210 days apartConcrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to CSRF on install_package() with conditional token bypass leading to RCE
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-84260 days apartConcrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to CSRF on prepare_remote_upgrade() leading to one-request RCE via package overwrite
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-84280 days apartCSRF token is not validated in the core CMS update controller for Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-81902116 days apartConcrete CMS 9.0.0 to 9.5.2 is vulnerable to CSRF on Orphan Block Cleanup
    28Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
P
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-352 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

Fixed

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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References

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