* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2009-034 * Project: Taxonomy manager (third-party module) * Version: 5.x, 6.x * Date: 2009-June-10 * Security risk: Moderately critical * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
-------- DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------
The Taxonomy manager module provides additional tools for administering taxonomy through Drupal. A vocabulary gets displayed in a dynamic tree view, where parent terms can be expanded to list their nested child terms or can be collapsed. The module does not properly escape some user-supplied data, allowing malicious users to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into the administrative pages provided by this module. A user who has the 'administer taxonomy' permission, and (depending on configuration) a user able to add taxonomy terms via free tagging, could attempt a cross site scripting [1] (XSS) attack which may lead to the user gaining full administrative access. -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED ---------------------------------------------------
* Taxonomy manager 6.x prior to 6.x-1.1 * Taxonomy manager 5.x prior to 5.x-1.2
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Taxonomy manager module, there is nothing you need to do. -------- SOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------
Install the latest version: * If you use Taxonomy manager 6.x upgrade to Taxonomy manager 6.x-1.1 [2] * If you use Taxonomy manager 5.x upgrade to Taxonomy manager 5.x-1.2 [3]
See also the Taxonomy manager [4] project page. -------- REPORTED BY ---------------------------------------------------------
Justin Klein Keane (Justin_KleinKeane [5]) -------- FIXED BY ------------------------------------------------------------
Matthias Hutterer (mh86 [6] the maintainer) and Justin Klein Keane (Justin_KleinKeane [7]) -------- 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/node/487602 [3] http://drupal.org/node/487620 [4] http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager [5] http://drupal.org/user/302225 [6] http://drupal.org/user/59747 [7] http://drupal.org/user/302225