Security Alert (A21-04-09): Vulnerability in Drupal

Description:

Drupal has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability of improper sanitisation of API requests in Drupal Core. A remote attacker may send specially crafted API requests to a vulnerable system to exploit the vulnerability.

Please note that Drupal 8 prior to version 8.9.x has reached its End-Of-Life (EOL). No security updates will be provided after that. Users should arrange upgrading the Drupal to supported versions or migrating to other supported technology.

Affected Systems:

• Drupal version 7.x
• Drupal version 8.9.x
• Drupal version 9.0.x
• Drupal version 9.1.x

Impact:

A successful attack could lead to cross site scripting on an affected system.

Recommendation:

The product vendor has released patches to address the issues.

• Drupal 7.80
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.80
• Drupal 8.9.14
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/8.9.14
• Drupal 9.0.12
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.0.12
• Drupal 9.1.7
  https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.1.7

More Information:

• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-002
• https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle-overview
• https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/04/22/drupal-releases-security-updates