🛡️ CVE-2018-7602 — core

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Drupal Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists within multiple subsystems of Drupal 7.x and 8.x. This potentially allows attackers to exploit multiple attack vectors on a Drupal site, which could result in the site being compromised. This vulnerability is related to Drupal core - Highly critical - Remote Code Execution - SA-CORE-2018-002. Both SA-CORE-2018-002 and this vulnerability are being exploited in the wild.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-7602 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2018-7602 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • drupal/core (from 8.5 up to 8.5.3)
  • drupal/drupal (from 8.5 up to 8.5.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 April 2024 and last revised on 10 December 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.debian.org (Web)
www.cisa.gov (Web)
www.debian.org (Web)
www.drupal.org (Web)
www.exploit-db.com (Web)
www.exploit-db.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-04-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-12-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
drupal/core 8.5 8.5.3
drupal/drupal 8.5 8.5.3

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