* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-006 * Project: Bibliography (third-party module) * Version: 5.x, 6.x * Date: 2010-January-13 * Security risk: Moderately Critical * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
-------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------
The Bibliography module enables users to manage and display lists of scholarly publications. The module does not sanitize some of the user-supplied data before displaying it, leading to a Cross Site Scripting (XSS [1]) vulnerability. Only users with the 'administer biblio' permission are able to exploit this vulnerability. -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED ---------------------------------------------------
* Bibliography module 5.x-1.17 and prior versions * Bibliography module 6.x-1.9 and prior versions
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Bibliography [2] module, there is nothing you need to do. -------- SOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------
Install the latest version: * If you use Bibliography for Drupal 5.x upgrade to Bibliography 5.x-1.18 [3] * If you use Bibliography for Drupal 6.x upgrade to Bibliography 6.x-1.10 [4]
See also the Bibliography project page [5]. -------- REPORTED BY ---------------------------------------------------------
* grendzy [6] of the Drupal Security Team.
-------- FIXED BY ------------------------------------------------------------
Ron Jerome [7], the Bibliography project maintainer. -------- CONTACT -------------------------------------------------------------
The security team 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/Cross-site_scripting [2] http://drupal.org/project/biblio [3] http://drupal.org/node/682694 [4] http://drupal.org/node/682696 [5] http://drupal.org/project/biblio [6] http://drupal.org/user/96647 [7] http://drupal.org/user/54997