Open Social is a Drupal distribution for online communities, which ships with a default (optional) module social_file_private to ensure the images and files provided by the distribution are stored in the private instead of the public filesystem.
For installations of Open Social prior to version 11.8.0, after updating to 11.8.0 or higher, newly uploaded files were no longer stored in the private file system as intended. Instead, they were stored in the public file system.
Install the latest version and make sure to run the update hooks.
- If you use Open Social 12.3.x upgrade to Open Social 12.3.10
- If you use Open Social 12.4.x upgrade to Open Social 12.4.9
Note: If some files were uploaded during that time and became unused, the update hook cannot move them. These files will require manual cleanup. Read the module release notes linked above for advice on how to handle that situation.
- Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team
