After fourteen years and multiple extensions, Drupal 7 reached end of life on January 5, 2025. Your site did not stop working this week, and it will not stop next week. What stopped is the flow of official security fixes, and that changes your risk position whether or not anything visible changes on screen.
From here, every newly discovered vulnerability in Drupal 7 core or its thousands of contributed modules stays open. Attackers know the end-of-life calendar as well as anyone, and unmaintained platforms with large install bases are exactly where automated exploitation concentrates. The risk is not dramatic on day one. It accumulates.
You have three honest options. Purchase extended support from a Drupal 7 vendor, which buys security coverage for a few more years but is a subscription on borrowed time. Migrate to modern Drupal, which is a genuine rebuild rather than an update, since Drupal 10 and 11 are a different architecture, but it is the durable answer for content-heavy sites. Or accept that the site never needed Drupal at all and move to something simpler. We have recommended all three to different clients, and the right answer depends on how much custom functionality the site carries.
What we would not recommend is deciding by not deciding. An honest assessment takes a few weeks: inventory the modules, identify what is custom, and price the realistic paths. Sites that start that work now migrate on their own schedule. Sites that wait tend to migrate on an attacker's.
