CVE-2026-85386

Concrete CMS before 9.5.4 did not sanitize XML and XSLT documents uploaded through a public Form Block file-upload question. Plain XML uploads were validated by file extension only and stored as publicly accessible files that were served inline from the application's own origin. An unauthenticated visitor could therefore store an XML document containing an xml-stylesheet processing instruction that referenced an attacker-supplied, same-origin XSLT stylesheet. When a victim opened the stored file directly in a browser, the browser fetched the stylesheet, transformed the document into HTML, and executed attacker-controlled JavaScript in the Concrete CMS origin (stored cross-site scripting). If the victim was an authenticated administrator, the script could act with that administrator's session, and the reporter demonstrated creation of a new user in the Administrators group. 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:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Valentin SARRE (Independent security researcher) for reporting.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Sep 2026, 17:51

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First Time Concretecms
Concretecms concrete Cms
References () https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/954-release-notes - () https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/954-release-notes - Broken Link
CPE cpe:2.3:a:concretecms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.1

16 Sep 2026, 17:18

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-16 17:18

Updated : 2026-09-21 17:51


NVD link : CVE-2026-85386

Mitre link : CVE-2026-85386

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-85386


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Products Affected

concretecms

  • concrete_cms
CWE
CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')