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What is overriding your Drupal config?

Something is overriding config in Drupal - you can see it by invoking drush with and without the flag to include overrides:

Monday, February 12, 2024 - 11:32

Remote Code Execution in Drupal via cache injection, drush, entitycache, and create_function

PHP's create_function() was:

DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.2.0, and REMOVED as of PHP 8.0.0

Monday, November 27, 2023 - 18:12

Insecure Deserialisation and IDOR, oh my!

A few years ago I found quite an interesting vulnerability in a contributed Drupal module called tablefield.

Friday, June 16, 2023 - 16:23

A persistent Drupal 7 exploit using a pluggable variable

A couple of years ago I was asked to take a look at a Drupal 7 site that was performing poorly where a colleague had spotted a strange function call in an Application Performance Management (APM) system.

Friday, November 12, 2021 - 16:00

Assessing the likelihood of a Drupal exploit of Ghostscript Zero Day CVE-2021-3781

Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 15:01

Checking for Bad Passwords in Drupal with Drop the Ripper to Avoid Site Compromise

This was originally posted on the dev.acquia.com blog.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 13:34

Password Policies and Drupal

Saturday, March 4, 2017 - 23:45

How to cleanly delete a Drupal file with drush

This is a simple trick which (unless my googlefu simply failed me) I didn't find described anywhere when I had a quick look:

$ drush ev '$file = file_load(21749); var_dump(file_delete($file, TRUE));'
bool(true)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 15:43

How to cleanly delete a Drupal file with drush

This is a simple trick which (unless my googlefu simply failed me) I didn't find described anywhere when I had a quick look:

$ drush ev '$file = file_load(21749); var_dump(file_delete($file, TRUE));'
bool(true)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 15:43

How to cleanly delete a Drupal file with drush

This is a simple trick which (unless my googlefu simply failed me) I didn't find described anywhere when I had a quick look:

$ drush ev '$file = file_load(21749); var_dump(file_delete($file, TRUE));'
bool(true)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 15:43

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What is overriding your Drupal config?

Something is overriding config in Drupal - you can see it by invoking drush with and without the flag to include overrides:

Monday, February 12, 2024 - 11:32

Remote Code Execution in Drupal via cache injection, drush, entitycache, and create_function

PHP's create_function() was:

DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.2.0, and REMOVED as of PHP 8.0.0

Monday, November 27, 2023 - 18:12

Insecure Deserialisation and IDOR, oh my!

A few years ago I found quite an interesting vulnerability in a contributed Drupal module called tablefield.

Friday, June 16, 2023 - 16:23

A persistent Drupal 7 exploit using a pluggable variable

A couple of years ago I was asked to take a look at a Drupal 7 site that was performing poorly where a colleague had spotted a strange function call in an Application Performance Management (APM) system.

Friday, November 12, 2021 - 16:00

Assessing the likelihood of a Drupal exploit of Ghostscript Zero Day CVE-2021-3781

Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 15:01

Checking for Bad Passwords in Drupal with Drop the Ripper to Avoid Site Compromise

This was originally posted on the dev.acquia.com blog.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 13:34

Password Policies and Drupal

Saturday, March 4, 2017 - 23:45

How to cleanly delete a Drupal file with drush

This is a simple trick which (unless my googlefu simply failed me) I didn't find described anywhere when I had a quick look:

$ drush ev '$file = file_load(21749); var_dump(file_delete($file, TRUE));'
bool(true)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 15:43

How to cleanly delete a Drupal file with drush

This is a simple trick which (unless my googlefu simply failed me) I didn't find described anywhere when I had a quick look:

$ drush ev '$file = file_load(21749); var_dump(file_delete($file, TRUE));'
bool(true)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 15:43

How to cleanly delete a Drupal file with drush

This is a simple trick which (unless my googlefu simply failed me) I didn't find described anywhere when I had a quick look:

$ drush ev '$file = file_load(21749); var_dump(file_delete($file, TRUE));'
bool(true)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 15:43

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