CVE-2007-5597: Drupal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The hook_comments API in Drupal 4.7.x before 4.7.8 and 5.x before 5.3 does not pass publication status, which might allow attackers to bypass access restrictions and trigger e-mail with unpublished comments from some modules, as demonstrated by (1) Organic groups and (2) Subscriptions.

Affected products

• Drupal Drupal: from 4.7.0, before 4.7.8 (fixed in 4.7.8); from 5.0, before 5.3 (fixed in 5.3)

Published 2007-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.