[DRAFT] [META] Drupal 7 policy on jQuery related vulnerabilities

Created on 1 October 2024, about 2 months ago

Drupal 7 core ships with an old version of jQuery and few related libraries.

Security scanning tools will flag D7 sites as vulnerable to a handful of CVEs relating to these old versions.

Most of the CVEs have been mitigated in Drupal 7 core, for example:

  • SA-CORE-2013-001 mitigates CVE-2011-4969
  • SA-CORE-2018-001 mitigates CVE-2015-9251 (and CVE-2017-16012)
  • SA-CORE-2019-006 mitigates CVE-2019-11358 and CVE-2019-5428
  • SA-CORE-2020-002 mitigates CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023

There are some jQuery related CVEs not included in this list, which the Drupal core maintainers and Drupal Security Team believe are not valid vulnerabilities in the context of D7 - for example CVE-2014-6071.

If you are concerned about a jQuery related vulnerability affecting your Drupal 7 site, the recommended solution is to use the jQuery Update module to utilise a recent release of jQuery (and/or related libraries) where the vulnerability has been addressed upstream.

The jQuery Update module manages the following libraries, and allows them to be updated to any version available:

  • jQuery
  • jQuery UI
  • jQuery Cookie
  • jQuery Form
  • jQuery Migrate

For more details see the project page at: https://www.drupal.org/project/jquery_update

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