CVE-2026-85385 PUBLISHED

Concrete CMS below 9.5.4 is vulnerable to Stored XSS via User Timezone Field

Assigner: ConcreteCMS
Reserved: 03.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

Concrete CMS below 9.5.4 did not validate the user timezone value (uTimezone) on write and rendered it without output encoding on the Dashboard user management page, where Date::getTimezoneDisplayName() returns any non-IANA value unchanged. A stored cross-site scripting payload saved in this field executed in an administrator's browser when they viewed the affected user in the Dashboard, running script in the admin session (for example to read CSRF tokens, create administrator accounts, or change site settings). In Concrete CMS 9.5.3 the field became reachable by unauthenticated visitors through public registration; in Concrete CMS below 9.5.3, the same field was reachable by any authenticated user through the account profile editor. Exploitation required concrete.misc.user_timezones to be enabled (off by default), and the unauthenticated path additionally required public registration to be enabled. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 7.7 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Suraj Bhosale for reporting.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor Concrete CMS
Product Concrete CMS
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5.0.0 to 9.5.3 (incl.)

Credits

  • surajbhosale finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation, "Cross-site Scripting" CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-592 Stored XSS