diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 6a0fb87a37d..d3e5b3040c8 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-7774: revise BasicDistributedZkTest.test logic w.r.t. 'commitWithin did not work on some nodes'
   (Christine Poerschke)
 
+* SOLR-8360: simplify ExternalFileField.getValueSource implementation (Christine Poerschke)
+
 ==================  5.4.0 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/ExternalFileField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/ExternalFileField.java
index 3f0e28aad4a..91f42b014bb 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/ExternalFileField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/ExternalFileField.java
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public class ExternalFileField extends FieldType implements SchemaAware {
 
   @Override
   public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser parser) {
-    return getFileFloatSource(field, parser.getReq().getCore().getDataDir());
+    return getFileFloatSource(field);
   }
 
   /**