CVE-2020-13663 — Vulnerability in drupal/core — CVE Details

HIGH

Drupal Core Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Published May 24, 2022Updated December 10, 2025Source: osv

Summary

Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Drupal Core Form API does not properly handle certain form input from cross-site requests, which can lead to other vulnerabilities.

Advisory Timeline

First published May 24, 2022 (1602 days ago).
Last revised December 10, 2025 — 1296 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

Composer

Update drupal/core to 9.0.1 or later

composer require "drupal/core:^9.0.1"

Composer

Update drupal/drupal to 9.0.1 or later

composer require "drupal/drupal:^9.0.1"

Composer

Update drupal/drupal to 8.9.1 or later

composer require "drupal/drupal:^8.9.1"

Composer

Update drupal/core to 7.72 or later

composer require "drupal/core:^7.72"

Composer

Update drupal/core to 8.9.1 or later

composer require "drupal/core:^8.9.1"

Composer

Update drupal/drupal to 7.72 or later

composer require "drupal/drupal:^7.72"

Composer

Update drupal/core to 8.8.8 or later

composer require "drupal/core:^8.8.8"

Composer

Update drupal/drupal to 8.8.8 or later

composer require "drupal/drupal:^8.8.8"

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (8)

Affects 1 ecosystem: packagist (2).

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed In
drupal/core	packagist	9.0.0	9.0.1
drupal/drupal	packagist	9.0.0	9.0.1
drupal/drupal	packagist	8.9.0	8.9.1
drupal/core	packagist	All versions	7.72
drupal/core	packagist	8.9.0	8.9.1
drupal/drupal	packagist	All versions	7.72
drupal/core	packagist	8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3 (+131 more)	8.8.8
drupal/drupal	packagist	8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3 (+131 more)	8.8.8

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

CWE-352
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)MITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 8.8 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2020-13663?: Drupal Core Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of HIGH (CVSS score: 8.8/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2020-13663?: CVE-2020-13663 affects drupal/core and drupal/drupal. Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2020-13663 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score

8.8

High exploitability or significant impact. Prioritize remediation within days.

Also Known As

GHSA-m648-hpf8-qcjw

BIT-drupal-2020-13663

DRUPAL-CORE-2020-004

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