Drupal Content Moderation Notifications up to 3.8.x privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Drupal Content Moderation Notifications up to 3.8.x. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-81161. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Drupal Content Moderation Notifications up to 3.8.x. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions vulnerability in Drupal Content Moderation Notifications allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Content Moderation Notifications versions: from 0.0.0 to 3.9.0.

The advisory is shared at drupal.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-81161 since 08/26/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.9.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Content Moderation Notifications 3.9.0

Timelineinfo

08/26/2026 CVE reserved
09/02/2026 +7 days Advisory disclosed
09/02/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/02/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: drupal.org

Advisory: drupal.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-81161 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-81161
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-398105

Entryinfo

Created: 09/02/2026 14:50
Changes: 09/02/2026 14:50 (54)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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