Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify target Concrete CMS 9.x instance
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DeliveryCraft malicious page with forged event/duplicate request
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ExploitLure authenticated CMS user via phishing or social engineering
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ExecutionVictim browser auto-submits forged request with session cookie
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ImpactUnauthorized event duplication executes on CMS
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to be actively authenticated to the Concrete CMS installation - specifically, a user with access to the event management functionality - and must be induced to visit an attacker-controlled web page or trigger a crafted HTTP request (reflected in CVSS UI:P and AT:P). The AT:P component explicitly encodes that the attacker depends on conditions outside their control: the victim's authenticated session must be live at the time of the forged request. PR:N confirms no attacker-side account is required on the CMS. Limiting factors: (1) victim must be logged into Concrete CMS at the time of attack, (2) victim must interact with or visit an attacker-controlled resource, (3) impact is restricted to unauthorized event duplication with low integrity effect - no data exfiltration, no account takeover, no availability impact. Default SameSite cookie behavior in modern browsers (Chrome 80+, Firefox 79+) set to Lax by default also partially mitigates this class of CSRF for top-level navigations. |
| Impact | The CVSS v4.0 score of 2.3 with vector AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N is consistent with a low-priority issue. While the attack vector is network-based and complexity is low, the AT:P component introduces a meaningful real-world dependency: the attacker cannot directly trigger the vulnerability without an authenticated victim visiting a malicious page. Impact is confined to a low integrity effect (VI:L) on the vulnerable system, with no confidentiality, availability, or downstream system impact. No EPSS score was provided in the intelligence data, so probabilistic exploitation likelihood cannot be quantified. No CISA KEV listing exists and no public exploit code has been identified - this is not a real-world priority vulnerability. The CVSS score and qualitative signals are fully aligned: this is a low-severity finding appropriate for inclusion in a regular patch cycle rather than emergency response. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious webpage containing a hidden HTML form or JavaScript fetch that auto-submits a forged POST request to the Concrete CMS event duplication endpoint. The attacker distributes this page via phishing email targeting known CMS administrators. When an authenticated editor visits the page, their browser sends the request with the active session cookie attached, causing the CMS to silently duplicate an event without the user's knowledge. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis, and exploitation requires social engineering to induce user interaction. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – May 21, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in Concrete CMS 9.x before 9.5.0 permits a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger unauthorized event duplication on behalf of an authenticated user by luring that user to an attacker-controlled page. The vulnerable endpoint is concrete/controllers/dialog/event/duplicate, which lacks CSRF token validation. The vendor-assigned CVSS v4.0 score of 2.3 reflects genuinely low impact - limited to a low-integrity effect on the vulnerable system - and no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at the time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to Concrete CMS 9.5.1 or later. While the CVE description states the fix is present in 9.5.0, the vendor's referenced release notes URL points to version 9.5.1 (https://documentation.concretecms.org/9-x/developers/introduction/version-history/951-release-notes), indicating that 9.5.1 is the safer confirmed target version. If immediate upgrade is not possible, restrict access to the path /concrete/controllers/dialog/event/duplicate at the web server or WAF layer to prevent external requests; note this will disable the event duplication dialog for all users. As an additional defense-in-depth measure, ensure session cookies have the SameSite attribute set to Strict or Lax, which browsers honor by blocking cross-site cookie transmission and mitigates CSRF generically - though this is not a substitute for patching and may affect cross-site integrations.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Concrete CMS is a PHP-based content management system. The vulnerability resides in the event duplication dialog controller at concrete/controllers/dialog/event/duplicate, which processes state-changing requests without validating a CSRF token, making it susceptible to CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery). In CSRF attacks, the victim's browser automatically attaches session credentials to cross-origin requests, allowing an attacker's crafted page to issue authenticated actions without possessing those credentials. The CVSS v4.0 vector component AT:P (Attack Requirements: Present) is notable - it indicates exploitation relies on conditions outside the attacker's direct control, specifically the victim maintaining an active authenticated session at the time of the forged request. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:concrete_cms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* across the 9.x branch.
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Severity by source
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
Primary rating from Vendor (ConcreteCMS) · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorVendor: ConcreteCMS
DescriptionCVE.org
Concrete CMS 9 before 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) at concrete/controllers/dialog/event/duplicate. 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.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
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