CVE-2025-13082
📋 TL;DR
This CVE describes a UI misrepresentation vulnerability in Drupal core that allows content spoofing. Attackers can manipulate the user interface to display misleading information, potentially tricking users into taking unintended actions. This affects Drupal installations running vulnerable versions from 8.0.0 through 11.2.7.
💻 Affected Systems
- Drupal Core
📦 What is this software?
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⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could spoof critical administrative interfaces, tricking administrators into performing privileged actions like user creation, permission changes, or content deletion.
Likely Case
Attackers create convincing fake login pages, password reset forms, or content submission interfaces to harvest credentials or mislead users.
If Mitigated
With proper user awareness training and multi-factor authentication, the impact is limited to temporary confusion rather than actual security breaches.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires understanding of Drupal's UI rendering and some user interaction to be effective.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 10.4.9, 10.5.6, 11.1.9, 11.2.8
Vendor Advisory: https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2025-007
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Backup your Drupal site and database. 2. Update Drupal core to the patched version using Composer (composer update drupal/core-recommended --with-dependencies) or the Drupal UI. 3. Clear all caches (drush cr or via UI). 4. Verify the update was successful.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Content Security Policy (CSP)
allImplement strict CSP headers to limit UI manipulation capabilities
Add Content-Security-Policy header to web server configuration
User Interface Validation
allImplement additional client-side validation for critical forms and interfaces
Implement JavaScript validation for form submissions and UI interactions
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict user awareness training about verifying URLs and interface authenticity
- Enable multi-factor authentication for all administrative accounts
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check Drupal version via Status Report page or run: drush status | grep 'Drupal version'Check Version:
drush status | grep 'Drupal version' or check /admin/reports/statusVerify Fix Applied:
Verify version is 10.4.9+, 10.5.6+, 11.1.9+, or 11.2.8+ and check that UI elements render correctly📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual UI rendering errors
- Multiple failed form submissions from same IP
- User reports of suspicious interface elements
Network Indicators:
- Unusual patterns in form submission requests
- Requests manipulating UI parameters
SIEM Query:
source="drupal_access_log" AND (message="UI rendering error" OR message="form validation failure")