drupal-spider/drupalsecurity

Drupal Security is a library to review security issue of Drupal code.

1.2.3 2025-11-08 00:03 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4.0
• ext-mbstring: *
• drupal/coder: >=8.2.0
• phpcsstandards/phpcsutils: >=1.0.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: >=3.0.0
• symfony/yaml: >=2.0.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: >=3.7 <6

GPL-2.0+

• security
• drupal
• standards
• phpcs
• code review

README

DrupalSecurity is a library for automated Drupal code security reviews. It defines rules for PHP_CodeSniffer

Note that Javascript has not been supported yet. To check and fix Javascript files please use ESLint and see the Drupal ESLint documentation.

Global installation

composer global require "squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*"
composer global require drupal-spider/drupalsecurity

Make sure you have the composer bin dir in your PATH. The default value is ~/.composer/vendor/bin/, but you can check the value that you need to use by running composer global config bin-dir --absolute.

Usage

Check Drupal Security standards

phpcs --standard=DrupalSecurity  --ignore='*/tests/*' --extensions=php,module,inc,install,theme,yml,twig [/file/to/drupal/module]

List all sniffers

phpcs --standard=DrupalSecurity -e