Role Delegation security updates, in plain English

Role Delegation

58,074 sites report using it · on drupal.org · 1 security update explained here

This module lets website managers give certain people the ability to assign specific roles to other users.

Below is every security update for Role Delegation that this site has covered, newest first. Each one says who could exploit it, whether it applies to your site, how urgent it is, and what to tell your developer. If your site uses this module and you are not sure which version, that is the first question to ask whoever looks after it.

Role Delegation

Moderately critical · 58,074 sites report using it · SA-CONTRIB-2026-002 · on drupal.org · Week of 14 January 2026

A user who is allowed to assign basic roles could give themselves the main administrator role. This would let them see all private data and change anything on the website. They could not do this if they only had a standard user account.

Who could do thisOnly someone with a login on your site.
Does it apply to youThis applies if the site uses the Views Bulk Operations module and the user can see a list of users.
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 Role Delegation to 8.x-1.5.

For developers: what the fix changed

The release diff is linked below. No summary of the fix has been written for this one.

8.x-1.4 to 8.x-1.5 7 commits, 14 files including 3 tests.

README.md +24 −41
role_delegation.api.php +23 −0
role_delegation.module +5 −11
role_delegation.services.yml +2 −1
src/Access/RoleDelegationAccessCheck.php +18 −12
src/DelegatableRoles.php +23 −1
src/DelegatableRolesInterface.php +1 −1
src/Form/RoleDelegationSettingsForm.php +1 −1
src/Plugin/Action/RoleDelegationAddRoleUser.php +1 −48
src/Plugin/Action/RoleDelegationManagerRoleUserTrait.php +77 −0
src/Plugin/Action/RoleDelegationRemoveRoleUser.php +1 −48

Full diff, 8.x-1.4 to 8.x-1.5

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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