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vulnerability

Drupal: CVE-2016-7570: Users without "Administer comments" can set comment visibility on nodes they can edit

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 3, 2016
Added
Sep 18, 2017
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Drupal 8.x before 8.1.10 does not properly check for "Administer comments" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to set the visibility of comments for arbitrary nodes by leveraging rights to edit those nodes.

Solution

drupal-upgrade-8_1_10
Title
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