CVE-2012-5543: Feeds Project Feeds

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Feeds module 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.0-alpha6 for Drupal, when a field is mapped to the node's author, does not properly check permissions, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary nodes via a crafted source feed.

Affected products

• Feeds Project Feeds: version 7.x-2.0 only; version 7.x-2.x only

Published 2012-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.