Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify Concrete CMS site with Conversations block active
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DeliveryConfirm unauthenticated access to /ccm/frontend/conversations/message_detail
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ExploitEnumerate sequential message IDs via automated HTTP requests
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ExecutionExtract full content of restricted, member-only, and moderation-queue messages
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PersistHarvest embedded file attachment download URLs
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ImpactDownload exposed files without authorization
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | The Concrete CMS Conversations block must be enabled and deployed on at least one page within the target site, and that conversation must contain messages - this is the AT:P precondition in the CVSS 4.0 vector. No authentication is required (PR:N confirmed by CVSS vector); exploitation is entirely unauthenticated and remote. No user interaction is needed (UI:N). The vulnerability does not affect sites that do not use the Conversations block at all. Exploitation is read-only: the CVSS vector confirms no integrity impact (VI:N) and no availability impact (VA:N), meaning attackers can only exfiltrate data, not modify or destroy it. Instances running Concrete CMS 9.5.1 or later are not affected. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 score of 6.3 reflects a moderate severity: the attack vector is network (AV:N), complexity is low (AC:L), no privileges are required (PR:N), and no user interaction is needed (UI:N), but impact is bounded - low confidentiality impact on the vulnerable component (VC:L) with zero integrity or availability consequence. The AT:P component is a meaningful constraint: exploitation only succeeds if the Conversations feature is active and populated with messages, which limits the total exposed population to sites actually using this block. EPSS data was not provided in the available intelligence, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified numerically. No CISA KEV listing exists and no public exploit code has been identified, indicating this is not currently subject to widespread automated exploitation. Despite the bounded CVSS impact rating, the practical risk is meaningful: an attacker can systematically harvest sensitive organizational communications from behind access controls (restricted pages, moderation queues, member areas) without any authentication, and the included file attachment URLs extend the breach surface to uploaded documents. This should be treated as a moderate-priority patch - not a drop-everything emergency, but a real unauthorized data access risk for any site relying on Concrete CMS conversations for sensitive or internal communications. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker identifies a publicly accessible Concrete CMS site and confirms the Conversations feature is active by observing comment threads on any public page. The attacker then scripts sequential GET requests to |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – May 21, 2026
Unauthenticated information disclosure in Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to enumerate all conversation messages - including content from restricted pages, member-only areas, and the moderation queue - by exploiting a missing authorization check on the /ccm/frontend/conversations/message_detail endpoint. File attachment download URLs are also exposed, compounding the data leakage risk. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; however, the attack requires no credentials and no user interaction, making bulk enumeration trivial once the conversations feature is confirmed active.
RemediationAI
The primary remediation is upgrading to Concrete CMS 9.5.1, as indicated by the vendor release notes at https://documentation.concretecms.org/9-x/developers/introduction/version-history/951-release-notes. Note that version 9.5.1 as the fix version is inferred from the reference URL and should be independently confirmed against the release notes before deployment. If immediate upgrade is not possible, the most effective compensating control is disabling the Conversations block across all pages, which eliminates the vulnerable endpoint's attack surface entirely at the cost of removing commenting functionality for site visitors. Alternatively, WAF or web server rules can restrict unauthenticated access to the /ccm/frontend/conversations/message_detail endpoint - note this may degrade conversation display for legitimate users if the endpoint is called client-side. For sites where conversations must remain active, removing sensitive or restricted content from conversation threads and moderation queues reduces the data-exposure impact until patching is complete. Rate-limiting requests to the conversations API at the edge can reduce enumeration throughput but does not prevent exploitation.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) in Concrete CMS's Conversations block, a page-level comment/discussion feature that supports access restrictions (member-only pages, moderation queues, and group-restricted content areas). The vulnerable endpoint /ccm/frontend/conversations/message_detail retrieves full message records by numeric ID but performs no authorization check to verify whether the requesting party has rights to view the parent page or conversation context. This is a classic IDOR pattern: object IDs are predictable/sequential, and the access control layer is entirely absent rather than merely bypassed. The CVSS 4.0 vector component AT:P (Attack Requirements: Present) signals that a precondition exists - the Conversations block must be deployed and contain messages - but no authentication is needed. CPE data (cpe:2.3:a:concrete_cms:concrete_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) and EUVD-2026-31352 confirm the affected range spans versions 5.0 through 9.5.0.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS VectorVendor: ConcreteCMS
DescriptionCVE.org
Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below is vulnerable to IDOR. The /ccm/frontend/conversations/message_detail endpoint returns the full content of any conversation message. An unauthenticated attacker can enumerate all conversation messages, including messages from restricted pages, member-only areas, and the moderation queue. File attachments with download URLs are also exposed. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v.4.0 score of 6.3 with Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Eldudareeno for reporting.
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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