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Concrete CMS vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the text input field

  • Disclosed: 06.12.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to XSS in the text input field since the result dashboard page output is not sanitized. The Concrete CMS security team has ranked this 4.2 with CVSS v3.1 vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediate by updating to Concrete CMS 8.5.10 and Concrete CMS 9.1.3.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package concrete5/concrete5 < 8.5.10, >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.3 8.5.10, 9.1.3

References

CVSS score 4.2/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Composer
Package
concrete5/concrete5
Disclosed
06.12.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-xj33-8r43-r227 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: concrete5/concrete5

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Composer package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (121) in the archive
Total entries
121
First → latest
10.2021 06.2026
Without a fix
10
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 2
  • High 16
  • Medium 65
  • Low 38

Disclosures per year

  1. 2021: 2
  2. 2022: 18
  3. 2023: 21
  4. 2024: 21
  5. 2025: 5
  6. 2026: 54
Severity:
  1. High CVE-2026-8421 < 9.5.1 9.5.1
  2. Critical · 7.2 CVE-2026-8134 < 9.5.1 9.5.1
  3. Concrete CMS vulnerable to cross-site scripting in the text input field this entry
    Medium · 4.2 CVE-2022-43556 < 8.5.10, >= 9.0.0, < 9.1.3 8.5.10, 9.1.3
  4. High · 8.8 CVE-2022-43693 < 8.5.10, >= 9.0.0RC1, < 9.1.3 8.5.10, 9.1.3
  5. High CVE-2021-22954 < 9.0.0 9.0.0
  6. High · 7.2 CVE-2020-11476 < 8.5.3 8.5.3
  7. High · 8.2 CVE-2021-22958 < 8.5.5 8.5.5

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