Drupal security updates, week of 18 March 2026: Automated Logout

Week of 18 March 2026

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Automated Logout

Moderately critical · 41,788 sites report using it · SA-CONTRIB-2026-030 · on drupal.org

This module allows a site administrator to log users out after a set time of inactivity.

Someone could trigger the log out page without a user doing anything. This would force a user to log out. They could not read any private information or change anything on the site.

Who could do thisAnyone visiting the site. No login needed.
Does it apply to youAny site using this module.
Has it been used in attacksNo sign of it.
How urgentDrupal rates this moderately critical. Include it in your next routine update, within the month.

Tell your developerUpdate Automated Logout to 2.0.2 or 8.x-1.7, whichever branch you are on.

For developers: what the fix changed

Adds `_csrf_token: 'TRUE'` to the module's routes in `autologout.routing.yml` and updates `autologout.module` and `src/Form/AutologoutBlockForm.php` to generate and append CSRF tokens to the corresponding URLs. The JavaScript in `js/autologout.js` is also updated to use these tokenised URLs.

Also in this release Replaced jQuery dialog with Drupal.dialog, removed the js-cookie dependency, and added session existence checks.

2.0.1 to 2.0.2 13 commits, 22 files including 5 tests.

.cspell-project-words.txt +14 −0
README.md +79 −34
autologout.api.php +2 −2
autologout.info.yml +1 −2
autologout.libraries.yml +1 −2
autologout.module +81 −6 fix
autologout.post_update.php +22 −2
autologout.routing.yml +4 −0 fix
composer.json +0 −3
config/install/autologout.settings.yml +3 −0
config/schema/autologout.schema.yml +9 −2
js/autologout.js +246 −178 fix

Full diff, 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 · Full diff, 8.x-1.6 to 8.x-1.7

The comparison is against the release immediately before the fix. If your site is on an older release, more will have changed.

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Compiled 10 October 2026 as part of the archive back to January 2026, from the advisories published by the Drupal security team on drupal.org. The facts on each card are theirs. The plain English is mine, with help from a language model. In the archive the cards rated critical or above were read before publishing and the rest were checked by sampling. Install counts are today's, not the count on the day of the advisory.

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Week of 18 March 2026

Moderately critical: 1 update

Automated Logout

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