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[meta] Audit the event subscriber system for security

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Created on 16 October 2014, almost 11 years ago
Updated 3 July 2025, 21 days ago

Problem/Motivation

There have been numerous issues reported in relation to the event subscriber system.

While event subscribers are a great and standard industry pattern, event subscribers are not a good thing to base your security model upon.

This meta will track child issues related to security in the event subscriber realm.

Proposed resolution

- Audit the event subscriber system
- Track child issues here

Remaining tasks

- Add child issues already existing
- Audit more of the event subscriber system

User interface changes

- to be seen

API changes

- to be seen

📌 Task
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

base system

Created by

🇩🇪Germany Fabianx

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  • Comment 21 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

    We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

    Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

    Thanks!

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