{"id":237556,"date":"2026-05-22T03:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/highly-critical-drupal-core-flaw-exposes-postgresql-sites-to-rce-attacks"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:14:06","slug":"highly-critical-drupal-core-flaw-exposes-postgresql-sites-to-rce-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/highly-critical-drupal-core-flaw-exposes-postgresql-sites-to-rce-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/highly-critical-drupal-core-flaw-exposes-postgresql-sites-to-rce-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drupal has released security updates for a \u201chighly critical\u201d security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, now tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cve.org\/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9082\"><strong>CVE-2026\u20139082<\/strong><\/a>, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0, per CVE.org. Drupal said the vulnerability resides in a database abstraction API that is used in Drupal Core to validate queries and ensure they are sanitized against SQL injection attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vulnerability in this API allows an attacker to send specially crafted requests, resulting in arbitrary SQL injection for sites using PostgreSQL databases,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/sa-core-2026-004\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis can lead to information disclosure, and in some cases privilege escalation, remote code execution, or other attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drupal has released security updates for a \u201chighly critical\u201d security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026\u20139082, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0, per CVE.org. Drupal said the vulnerability resides in a database [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}