CVE-2021-22966

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below. If a group is granted "view" permissions on the bulkupdate page, then users in that group can escalate to being an administrator with a specially crafted curl. Fixed by adding a check for group permissions before allowing a group to be moved. Concrete CMS Security team CVSS scoring: 7.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCredit for discovery: "Adrian Tiron from FORTBRIDGE ( https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ )"This fix is also in Concrete version 9.0.0

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 19, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-22966: High severity, CVSS 8.8 | Vulnix