CVE-2012-4475

medium

Published 2012-11-30 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

The Security Questions module for Drupal 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.1 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.1 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to edit an arbitrary user's questions and answers via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
security_questions_project	security_questions	`6.x-1.0`
security_questions_project	security_questions	`6.x-1.x`
security_questions_project	security_questions	`7.x-1.0`
security_questions_project	security_questions	`7.x-1.x`
drupal	drupal	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.