Stored XSS via unescaped form question labels
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in Concrete CMS before 9.5.3 allows remote authenticated users to execute script in an administrator's browser. The Dashboard Form Submissions report renders user-defined Form block question labels as column headers without HTML entity encoding. A rogue editor must store a crafted label, and an administrator must open that form's submissions report, allowing the script to act in the administrator's browser.
Summary
What happened
Stored cross-site scripting in Concrete CMS before 9.5.3 allows remote authenticated users to execute script in an administrator's browser. The Dashboard Form Submissions report renders user-defined Form block question labels as column headers without HTML entity encoding. A rogue editor must store a crafted label, and an administrator must open that form's submissions report, allowing the script to act in the administrator's browser.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-81896
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Concrete CMS
- Product
- Concrete CMS
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.0.0 <=9.5.2
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