CVE-2024-7398
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedConcrete CMS versions 9 through 9.3.3 and versions below 8.5.19 are vulnerable to stored XSS in the calendar event addition feature because the calendar event name was not sanitized on output. Users or groups with permission to create event calendars can embed scripts, and users or groups with permission to modify event calendars can execute scripts. The Concrete CMS Security Team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4 score of 4.6 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N Thank you, Yusuke Uchida for reporting. CNA updated this risk rank on 20 Jan 2025 by lowering the AC based on CVSS 4.0 documentation that access privileges should not be considered for AC)
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisUntrusted input is placed into a web page without being neutralised, so an attacker's markup or script executes in another user's browser. That can hijack sessions, capture keystrokes, or silently perform actions as the victim. Fixing it properly means context-aware output encoding everywhere data meets HTML, backed by a content-security policy as a second line of defence.
General guidance for the cross-site scripting (xss) class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< 8.5.19>= 9.0.0, < 9.3.3CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped8.5.199.3.3
Concrete CMS 8.5.19 or 9.3.3 (depending on your current major version)
- 1. Backup your Concrete CMS database and files before proceeding with any upgrade.
- 2. Download Concrete CMS version 8.5.19 or later if running version 8.x, or version 9.3.3 or later if running version 9.x from the official Concrete CMS website (https://www.concretecms.com/download).
- 3. Extract the new version files and replace the existing installation, preserving your configuration and custom files (typically in /application/files and /application/config).
- 4. Run the upgrade script by accessing your site in a web browser - Concrete CMS will automatically detect and apply database updates.
- 5. Verify the calendar event functionality works correctly and that XSS sanitization is applied to event names.
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