drupal/core security advisory

CVE-2026-9082: Drupal Core has a SQL Injection issue

CVE-2026-9082 is a critical-severity SQL injection vulnerability in the PHP package drupal/core (CVSS 9.8), published 20 May 2026. It is fixed in 10.4.10, 10.5.10, 10.6.9, 11.1.10, 11.2.12 and 11.3.10, one per release line; earlier versions on each line are affected. It can be exploited without an account. CISA lists it as exploited in the wild since 22 May 2026.

critical 9.8 exploited in the wild published 2026-05-20 · updated 2026-10-07

This SQL injection issue affects drupal/core in 6 release lines: >= 8.9.0, < 10.4.10; >= 10.5.0, < 10.5.10; >= 10.6.0, < 10.6.9; >= 11.0.0, < 11.1.10; >= 11.2.0, < 11.2.12; >= 11.3.0, < 11.3.10. Upgrade to the fixed version for your release line (10.4.10, 10.5.10, 10.6.9, 11.1.10, 11.2.12 and 11.3.10). The newest release, 11.4.11, is not affected.

Affected versions: >= 8.9.0, < 10.4.10
>= 10.5.0, < 10.5.10
>= 10.6.0, < 10.6.9
>= 11.0.0, < 11.1.10
>= 11.2.0, < 11.2.12
>= 11.3.0, < 11.3.10
Fixed in: 10.4.10, 10.5.10, 10.6.9, 11.1.10, 11.2.12, 11.3.10
Newest release: 11.4.11
Severity: Critical · CVSS 9.8
Type: SQL injection
CWE-89
Exploited in the wild: Yes: on the CISA KEV list since 2026-05-22

Is your drupal/core version affected?

Run composer show drupal/core in your project, then enter the version. We check it against this and every other known drupal/core advisory.

Who can exploit CVE-2026-9082

Access: No account. Anyone who can send a request to an app that uses the affected code.

CVSS vector (scored by Drupal): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Your app is only exposed if it uses the affected part of drupal/core. The advisory below says which part that is. If you are not sure, upgrade anyway: it costs less than finding out.

How to fix CVE-2026-9082 in drupal/core

Find the installed version: composer show drupal/core. If you never required it yourself, composer why drupal/core shows which package pulls it in.
Update it: composer update drupal/core --with-all-dependencies. You need the fixed version for your release line (10.4.10, 10.5.10, 10.6.9, 11.1.10, 11.2.12 and 11.3.10).
If Composer will not go that high, your composer.json constraint is holding it back. Widen it (for example "drupal/core": "^11.3.10" if you can take that version), or upgrade the package that requires it.
Run composer audit. It reads the same advisory data and should no longer list CVE-2026-9082.
Commit composer.lock and deploy it. On the server, run composer install --no-dev from the lock file, not composer update.

If you cannot upgrade yet

General hardening for SQL injection issues while the upgrade waits. None of it replaces the fix.

Make sure user input never reaches the affected query builder or ORM method unvalidated; allow-list column and sort names.
Give the app's database user only the permissions it needs.
If your app does not use the affected feature, note that in your audit, but still plan the upgrade.

The CVE-2026-9082 advisory

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Drupal Drupal core allows SQL Injection. This issue affects Drupal core: from 8.9.0 before 10.4.10, from 10.5.0 before 10.5.10, from 10.6.0 before 10.6.9, from 11.0.0 before 11.1.10, from 11.2.0 before 11.2.12, from 11.3.0 before 11.3.10.

Description from the CVE record, published by Drupal (the CVE Numbering Authority), via the NVD entry for CVE-2026-9082. Advisory title: “Drupal Core has a SQL Injection issue”.

References

GitHub advisory GHSA-ghwc-95x2-682j github.com
drupal.org www.drupal.org
cisa.gov www.cisa.gov

Other drupal/core advisories

medium CVE-2026-6366: Drupal core allows Object Injection 2026-05-20
medium CVE-2026-6365: Drupal core is Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting 2026-05-20
medium CVE-2026-6367: Drupal core allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) 2026-05-20
medium CVE-2025-13081: Drupal core allows Object Injection 2025-11-18
low CVE-2025-13082: Drupal core allows Content Spoofing 2025-11-18
low CVE-2025-13083: Drupal core allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels 2025-11-18

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Where this data comes from

Affected and fixed versions: the Packagist security advisories API (GitHub Advisory Database and FriendsOfPHP), the same data composer audit uses. Synced 2026-11-03.
Description, score, weakness and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
Exploited-in-the-wild status: the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, checked 2026-11-04.
Compiled by Daniel Lasek at Laskyr from the sources above. The summary, “who can exploit it”, “how to fix it” and hardening sections are our plain-English reading of the record and are generated from it. The quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Tell us.