CVE-2024-12393 | Drupal core - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2024-003

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Drupal Core allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Drupal Core: from 8.8.0 before 10.2.11, from 10.3.0 before 10.3.9, from 11.0.0 before 11.0.8.

Published: 2024-12-09 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-12393 is rated Low Risk (27.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.32%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-12393

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 2.54% 0.32% -2.22%
2 2026-04-30 1.89% 2.54% +0.66%
3 2026-03-10 1.89%

Full EPSS history (28 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-12393

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.3 2.7 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-12393

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-12393

GHSA-8mvq-8h2v-j9vf · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: composer — Drupal Core Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-12393

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-12393 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (drupal7), 9 status rows across 9 suites (focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 6, needs-triage 2, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-12393

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-12393

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
drupal drupal >= 8.8.0, < 10.2.11 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
drupal drupal >= 10.3.0, < 10.3.9 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
drupal drupal >= 11.0.0, < 11.0.8 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-12393

URL Tags
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2024-003 Vendor Advisory
cvelogic Threat Intelligence