* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2009-081 * Project: Abuse (third-party module) * Version: 5.x, 6.x * Date: 2009 October 21 * Security risk: Critical * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
-------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------
The Abuse module enables users to flag nodes and comments as offensive, bringing them to the attention of the site maintainer for review. The module suffers from a Cross Site Scripting (Cross Site Scripting [1]) vulnerability. Such an attack may lead to a malicious user gaining full administrative access. -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED ---------------------------------------------------
* Abuse 6.x prior to 6.x-1.1-alpha1 * Abuse 5.x prior to 5.x-2.1
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Abuse module, there is nothing you need to do. -------- SOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------
Upgrade to the latest version: * If you use Abuse for Drupal 6.x upgrade to version 6.x-1.1-alpha1 [2] * If you use Abuse for Drupal 5.x upgrade to version 5.x-2.1 [3]
-------- REPORTED BY ---------------------------------------------------------
* Reported by Mustafa ULU [4].
-------- FIXED BY ------------------------------------------------------------
* Fixed by Ashok Modi [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/XSS [2] http://drupal.org/node/610900 [3] http://drupal.org/node/610784 [4] http://drupal.org/user/207559 [5] http://drupal.org/user/60422