Concrete CMS below 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Authenticated Denial of Service via Unescaped SQL LIKE Wildcards in Keyword Search

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-68531",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Concrete CMS below 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Authenticated Denial of Service via Unescaped SQL LIKE Wildcards in Keyword Search",
    "summary": "Concrete CMS 9 before 9.5.3 did not escape SQL LIKE wildcard characters in the keyword search filters used by the file manager, file folders, and page list, allowing an authenticated user with editor-level or higher privileges to submit a crafted search containing many single-character wildcards. Because the keyword input was placed into the LIKE clause without neutralizing its wildcard metacharacters, a short request could force the database to evaluate every row and perform a full-table scan, and repeated or wildcard-dense searches could sustain elevated database CPU and I/O, degrading responsiveness for other users on large installations. The Concrete CMS security team gave this vulnerability a CVSS v4.0 score of 2.1 with vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N. Thanks noivan for reporting.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-68531",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
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                        "last_affected": "9.5.2"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.783449144Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/953-release-notes",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68531.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68531",
        "https://github.com/concretecms/concretecms"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 505266,
  "published_at": "2026-09-15T19:03:38.816+00:00"
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