Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in concrete5/concrete5 (CVE-2026-8421)
Summary
Vulnerability in concrete5/concrete5 (CVE-2026-8421). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 9.5.1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below contains a CSRF vulnerability in the install_package() method of concrete/controllers/single_page/dashboard/extend/install.php. An attacker who can cause an authenticated administrator to visit a crafted page, and who has placed or caused a package to be present under DIR_PACKAGES//, can force the installation of that package without any CSRF protection. Package installation executes the package controller's install() method as the web server user, enabling remote code execution. In order to be vulnerable, the victim must be passing canInstallPackages. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v.4.0 score of 7.5 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks https://github.com/maru1009 for reporting.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-8421 has been found in concrete5/concrete5.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.8/10.
What to do: upgrade concrete5/concrete5 to 9.5.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "concrete5/concrete5 CVE-2026-8421" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-8421 (concrete5/concrete5) — CWE-352 / CVSS v3 8.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 9.5.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
CSRF (CWE-352) exists in concrete5/concrete5.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of concrete5/concrete5.
Severity: High (CVSS 8.8/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 9.5.1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'concrete5/concrete5' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'concrete5/concrete5' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
concrete5/concrete5を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade concrete5/concrete5 to 9.5.1ステージング環境で 9.5.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory documentation.concretecms.org
- advisory github.com
- package github.com
- web github.com