Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting concrete5/concrete5 package, versions <9.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-CONCRETE5CONCRETE5-17660464
  • published27 Jun 2026
  • disclosed21 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 May 2026

CVE-2026-8135  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade concrete5/concrete5 to version 9.5.1 or higher.

Overview

concrete5/concrete5 is a concrete5 open source CMS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via the ExpressEntryList block controller. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the server by injecting a malicious serialized payload into the filterFields database column through the REST API, bypassing intended protection mechanisms. This is only exploitable if the attacker has administrator privileges with the ability to add blocks to an area.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

CVSS Base Scores

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