What is CVE-2020-14961?

CVE-2020-14961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Concretecms Concrete Cms. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-06-22.

How severe is CVE-2020-14961?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Concretecms Concrete Cms

CVE-2020-14961

Concrete5 before 8.5.3 does not constrain the sort direction to a valid asc or desc value.

Published 2020-06-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (59.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 60th percentile — 59.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Concretecms Concrete Cms

References

github.com/concrete5/concrete5/pull/8651 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/concrete5/concrete5/releases/tag/8.5.3 (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-14961?: CVE-2020-14961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Concretecms Concrete Cms. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-06-22.
How severe is CVE-2020-14961?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.