CVE-2024-13256 Email Contact - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-020

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can bypass access controls in the Drupal Email Contact module via forceful browsing, potentially accessing restricted functionality.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-13256?

CVE-2024-13256 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Drupal Email Contact, published on 9 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control vulnerability in Drupal Email Contact allows Forceful Browsing.This issue affects Email Contact: from 0.0.0 before 2.0.4.

Weakness: CWE-1220

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13256?

It affects 1 product.

Linux distribution packages (1)
drupal/email_contact Packagist:https://packages.drupal.org/8All versions2.0.4

Products include Email Contact Project Email Contact.

How do I fix CVE-2024-13256?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-13256 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13256 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2024-020, GHSA-xhf8-2ffc-9gh2.

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