CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
52.8%
This module enables you to build searches using a wide range of features, data sources and backends.
The module doesn’t sufficiently guard the “enable index” action against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks which could allow an attacker to enable existing search indexes on your site.
This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that the attacker would need to guess the machine name or ID of a disabled index or server, and a disabled index would have to be connected to an enabled server for the operation to be successful. The impact from such an enabled index has little effect besides using additional resources for indexing because search pages or views related to the index are not automatically enabled. The enabling of a server has no effect unless existing indexes assigned to that server are subsequently enabled as well.
CVE: CVE-2012-5547
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Search API module, there is nothing you need to do.
Install the latest version:
Alternatively, you can remove the vulnerability without upgrading by moving disabled indexes away from servers:
Also see the Search API project page.