# CVE-2024-13270: Freelinking - Moderately critical - Information Disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2024-034

> Attackers can access restricted information due to incorrect authorization checks in the Drupal Freelinking module.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 9 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 31 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2024-034, GHSA-w65p-8m9j-6pm4

## What is CVE-2024-13270?

CVE-2024-13270 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Drupal Freelinking, published on 9 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Drupal Freelinking allows Forceful Browsing.This issue affects Freelinking: from 0.0.0 before 4.0.1.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13270?

It affects 1 product.


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `drupal/freelinking` | Packagist:https://packages.drupal.org/8 | All versions | 4.0.1 |

Products: Freelinking Project Freelinking.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-13270?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2024-13270 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13270 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13270 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-13270 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Drupal Freelinking, published on 9 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13270 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Drupal Freelinking. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13270/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13270/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13270
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13270
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13270

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13270/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.