* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2009-080 * Project: Simplenews Statistics (third-party module) * Version: 6.x * Date: 2009 October 21 * Security risk: Critical * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Multiple vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF, Open Redirect)
-------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------
The Simplenews Statistics module provides newsletter statistics such as the open rate and CTR (click-through rate). The module suffers multiple vulnerabilities, including Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF [1]), Cross Site Scripting problem (Cross Site Scripting [2]) and Open Redirect. This problem allows an attacker to hijack the account of a logged in user by tricking them into visiting a seemingly innocent page. -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED ---------------------------------------------------
* Simplenews Statistics 6.x prior to 6.x-2.0
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Simplenews Statistics module, there is nothing you need to do. -------- SOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------
Upgrade to the latest version: * If you use Simplenews Statistics for Drupal 6.x upgrade to version 6.x-2.0 [3]
-------- REPORTED BY ---------------------------------------------------------
* Open redirect vulnerability reported by John Pettitt * XSS and CSRF vulnerability reported by Dylan Wilder-Tack [4]
-------- FIXED BY ------------------------------------------------------------
* Fixed by Sjoerd Arendsen [5].
-------- CONTACT -------------------------------------------------------------
The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csrf [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSS [3] http://drupal.org/node/590098 [4] http://drupal.org/user/96647 [5] http://drupal.org/user/310132