Does an abscess that ruptures on its own always need surgery?

If the drainage is good, emergency surgery is not necessary, and individual mild abscesses that have ruptured and are located on the surface do not even require surgery and can be healed by changing the dressing.
If there is also a combined anal fistula, it is easy to miss the diagnosis and increase the chances of post-operative recurrence, so it is important to have adequate pre-operative investigations and to visit the hospital promptly.