VulnerabilityPublished 25 Mar 2026

CVE-2026-3212: Drupal Tagify · Cross-site Scripting

Affects Drupal TagifySource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.4 Medium : upgrade to 1.2.49 when convenient.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.4Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 3% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 1.2.49

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Confidentiality: Low: There is some loss of confidentiality. Access to some restricted information is obtained, but the attacker does not have control over what information is obtained, or the amount or kind of loss is limited. The information disclosure does not cause a direct, serious loss to the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 25 Mar 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Drupal Tagify to 1.2.49.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
DrupalTagify	Affected <1.2.49	Fixed in 1.2.49

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2026-3212, organizations should: 1) Immediately monitor for and apply updates to the Drupal Tagify module, specifically upgrading to version 1.2.49 or later once available. 2) Implement strict input validation on all user-supplied data, ensuring that any input used in web page generation is sanitized to remove or encode potentially malicious characters. 3) Employ output encoding techniques, such as HTML entity encoding, to neutralize any dynamic content rendered on web pages. 4) Utilize Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts in browsers. 5) Conduct regular security audits and penetration testing focused on XSS vulnerabilities within Drupal modules and custom code. 6) Educate developers and administrators on secure coding practices related to input handling and output rendering. 7) Monitor web server logs and intrusion detection systems for unusual activity that may indicate attempted exploitation. 8) Consider implementing web application firewalls (WAFs) with rules tailored to detect and block XSS attack patterns targeting Drupal sites.

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ("Cross-site Scripting") vulnerability in Drupal Tagify allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).This issue affects Tagify: from 0.0.0 before 1.2.49.

Impact

The impact of CVE-2026-3212 is significant for organizations running Drupal websites with the Tagify module. Successful exploitation can lead to unauthorized script execution in users' browsers, resulting in session hijacking, theft of sensitive information such as cookies and credentials, and potential defacement or redirection to malicious sites. This compromises the confidentiality and integrity of user data and can damage organizational reputation. Public-facing websites, especially those handling sensitive user interactions or personal data, are at higher risk. The vulnerability can also facilitate further attacks such as phishing or malware distribution. Since the vulnerability does not require authentication, any visitor to the affected site could be targeted, increasing the attack surface. Organizations in sectors like e-commerce, government, healthcare, and education that rely on Drupal for content management are particularly vulnerable. The absence of known exploits currently provides a window for proactive mitigation, but the risk of future exploitation remains high.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-013 (opens in a new tab)

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WeaknessesCWE-79

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