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Silverstripe CMS

Developer-friendly CMS with a clean admin interface

Content Management Systems ★ 725 stars Medium setup BSD-3-Clause

Silverstripe CMS is an open-source PHP content management system with a polished editorial interface and a powerful underlying framework. It is favored by developers building custom, structured websites.

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Key features

  • Clean, intuitive admin UI
  • Powerful ORM and framework
  • Strong content versioning
  • Flexible templating

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Great balance of CMS and framework
  • Pleasant editor experience

Trade-offs

  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Custom development often required

Is Silverstripe CMS secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Silverstripe CMS's latest release (6.2.11). OSV.dev lists 47 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-54720, published 2026-07-01 (105 days ago), fixed in 6.2.2

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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