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CVE-2026-81920: Concrete CMS below 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Dashboard SEO Excluded Words Reset Endpoint
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-15 · updated 2026-09-18
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
Concrete CMS below 9.5.3 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in the dashboard SEO Excluded Words page. The reset() controller action cleared the administrator-configured reserved-word list (concrete.seo.exclude_words) but did not validate the anti-CSRF token that the reset modal emitted, and it did not restrict the request to the POST method. A remote attacker who lured an authenticated user with SEO access to a crafted page could revert the reserved-word list to its default and silently alter future URL-slug generation for pages, files, topics, and other objects created through the Text urlify service, undoing the site's configured SEO slug policy. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 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 riodrwn for reporting.
Affected products
- Concrete CMS: before 9.5.3 — fixed in 9.5.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Concrete CMS 9.5.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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