Concrete CMS 9 to 9.4.2 and versions below 8.5.21 are vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the Conversation Messages Dashboard Page. Unsanitized input could cause theft of session cookies or tokens, defacement of web content, redirection to malicious sites, and (if victim is an admin), the execution of unauthorized actions. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v.4.0 score of 4.8 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Fortbridge https://fortbridge.co.uk/  for performing a penetration test and vulnerability assessment on Concrete CMS and reporting this issue.
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Description Concrete CMS 9 to 9.4.2 and versions below 8.5.21 are vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the Conversation Messages Dashboard Page. Unsanitized input could cause theft of session cookies or tokens, defacement of web content, redirection to malicious sites, and (if victim is an admin), the execution of unauthorized actions. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v.4.0 score of 4.8 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Fortbridge https://fortbridge.co.uk/  for performing a penetration test and vulnerability assessment on Concrete CMS and reporting this issue.
Title Concrete CMS 9 through 9.4.2 and below 8.5.21 is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Conversation Messages Dashboard Page
Weaknesses CWE-20
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ConcreteCMS

Published: 2025-08-05T22:37:14.759Z

Updated: 2025-08-06T20:25:03.661Z

Reserved: 2025-08-04T21:50:20.743Z

Link: CVE-2025-8571

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-06T16:14:48.715Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-05T23:15:38.493

Modified: 2025-08-06T20:23:52.133

Link: CVE-2025-8571

cve-icon Redhat

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