# CVE-2026-18116: Concrete CMS 8.3.0 to 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Stored XSS in Calendar Event Name via Workflow Approval Notifications

- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- Concrete CMS: from 8.3.0, through 9.5.2

## Description

Concrete CMS 8.3.0 to 9.5.2 stored calendar event names without sanitization and rendered them without HTML escaping in the workflow approval and deletion notifications shown in the dashboard "Waiting For Me" block. A registered user permitted to add events to a calendar governed by an approval workflow could submit an event whose name contained a script payload, which then executed in an administrator's browser when the pending request was displayed and could be used to create a new administrator account. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 7.3 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks v01demort for reporting.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Concrete CMS, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/953-release-notes
- https://github.com/EndlssNightmare/CVE-2026-18116

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