Drupal cctags Module Unspecified Script Insertion

by Carol~ Moderator - 5/3/12 10:26 AM

In Reply to: VULNERABILITIES / FIXES - May 03, 2012 by Carol~ Moderator

Drupal cctags Module Unspecified Script Insertion Vulnerability

Release Date : 2012-05-03

Criticality level : Less critical
Impact : Cross Site Scripting
Where : From remote
Solution Status : Unpatched

Software: Drupal cctags Module 6.x
Drupal cctags Module 7.x

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in the cctags module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain unspecified input related to tag clouds when creating or editing vocabularies or terms is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires the permissions to create or edit vocabularies or terms.

The vulnerability is reported in version prior to 6.x-1.10 and 7.x-1.10.

Solution:
Update to version 6.x-1.10 or 7.x-1.10.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-072:
http://drupal.org/node/1558248

http://secunia.com/advisories/49018/