Concrete CMS versions 9 below 9.2.8 and versions below 8.5.16 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the Advanced File Search Filter

published 2024-04-03 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-1340 , GHSA-xwrh-qxmc-x8c8

cvss: 3.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits: 0; none known

Concrete CMS versions 9 below 9.2.8 and versions below 8.5.16 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the Advanced File Search Filter. Prior to the fix, a rogue administrator could add malicious code in the file manager because of insufficient validation of administrator provided data. All administrators have access to the File Manager and hence could create a search filter with the malicious code attached. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v3.1 score of 3.1 with a vector of AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator .

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 4

packagist concrete5/concrete5 8.5.16, 9.2.8
concretecms concrete_cms 8.5.16, 9.2.8

github.com/concretecms/concretecms@822e689 commit
github.com/concretecms/concretecms@f2ea49b commit
github.com/concretecms/concretecms#11988 pull request
github.com/concretecms/concretecms#11989 pull request

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-04-03)

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
GitHub	3.1	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
packagist	concrete5/concrete5	>=9.0.0RC1, <9.2.8 <8.5.16	9.2.8 8.5.16

Affected products

Concrete CMS Concrete CMS

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-3178
GitHub Advisory GHSA-xwrh-qxmc-x8c8
NVD CVE-2024-3178

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Summary