{"id":"CVE-2026-81909","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Concrete CMS 9 through 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the orphaned-block alias route, allowing an authenticated editor to disclose and force-delete arbitrary blocks","description":"Concrete CMS 9 through 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the block alias route (Process::alias() in concrete/controllers/backend/block/process.php).It does not verify that the referenced block is genuinely orphaned on the target page, nor that the caller holds any permission over the source block. A user granted only an area-scoped add_block_to_area delegation on their own page can therefore pass any block ID on the site: the source block's content is duplicated into an area the rogue editor controls, disclosing that content, and the original block is then force-deleted in the same request, destroying arbitrary site content. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 5.9 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks Yonatan Drori from Tenzai for reporting.","publishedAt":"2026-09-11T17:49:47.885Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-11T17:58:35.013Z","severity":{"score":5.9,"label":"Medium","version":"4.0","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","source":"ConcreteCMS"},"assigner":"ConcreteCMS","products":["Concrete CMS Concrete CMS"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Concrete CMS","product":"Concrete CMS","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"9.0.0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"9.5.2","versionType":"git"}],"collectionURL":"https://github.com/concretecms/concretecms","repo":"https://github.com/concretecms/concretecms"}],"references":["https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/953-release-notes"],"weaknesses":["CWE-862"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:13:15.269Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/81xxx/CVE-2026-81909.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-81909","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-09-11T17:49:47.885Z","dateUpdated":"2026-09-11T17:58:35.013Z","assignerShortName":"ConcreteCMS","assignerOrgId":"ff5b8ace-8b95-4078-9743-eac1ca5451de","dateReserved":"2026-08-27T18:21:25.200Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"Concrete CMS 9 through 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the orphaned-block alias route, allowing an authenticated editor to disclose and force-delete arbitrary blocks","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"Concrete CMS 9 through 9.5.2 is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the block alias route (Process::alias() in concrete/controllers/backend/block/process.php).It does not verify that the referenced block is genuinely orphaned on the target page, nor that the caller holds any permission over the source block. 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