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CVE-2026-81924: Concrete CMS below 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Theme Page Template Activation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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 2026-09-21
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
Concrete CMS before 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the theme page-template activation feature. The Dashboard theme Inspect controller's activate_files() action created PageTemplate records from attacker-supplied pageTemplates[] values without validating an anti-CSRF token.A remote attacker could host a page that auto-submitted a forged POST request; when a signed-in administrator visited it, the request executed under the administrator's session and created theme page-template records, changing site configuration without the administrator's consent. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 2.1 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Andrew Gonzalez 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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