* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2009-087 * Project: FAQ Ask (third-party module) * Version: 6.x * Date: 2009 October 28 * Security risk: Critical * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Multiple Vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF, Open Redirect)
-------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------
The FAQ Ask module enables site users to ask questions for experts to answer. The module suffers multiple vulnerabilities, including Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF [1]) and Cross Site Scripting problems (Cross Site Scripting [2]). These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to hijack the account of a logged in user by tricking them into visiting a seemingly innocent page, and gain access to unpublished content on a site. -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED ---------------------------------------------------
* FAQ Ask module for Drupal 6.x prior to 6.x-2.0 (including 6.x-1.x) * FAQ Ask module for Drupal 5.x
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed FAQ Ask module, there is nothing you need to do. -------- SOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------
Upgrade to the latest version or disable the module. * If you use FAQ Ask for Drupal 6.x upgrade to version 6.x-2.0 [3] * If you use FAQ Ask for Drupal 5.x it is no longer supported and you should disable it or upgrade your site to 6.x so you can use FAQ Ask 6.x-2.0.
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* XSS and CSRF vulnerability reported by Dylan Wilder-Tack [4]
See also the FAQ Ask module project page [5]. -------- FIXED BY ------------------------------------------------------------
* Fixed by NancyDru [6].
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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/611316 [4] http://drupal.org/user/96647 [5] http://drupal.org/project/faq_ask [6] http://drupal.org/user/101412