[Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2011-044 - Homebox for Organic Groups Cross Site Scripting

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  * Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2011-044
  * Project: Homebox [1] (third-party module)
  * Version: 6.x, 7.x
  * Date: 2011-October-05
  * Security risk: Moderately critical [2]
  * Exploitable from: Remote
  * Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting (XSS [3])

-------- DESCRIPTION  
---------------------------------------------------------

Homebox allows site administrators to create dashboards for their users,
using blocks as widgets. Blocks in a Homebox page are resizeable, and
reorderable by dragging.

Homebox OG is a submodule of Homebox which allows Organics Groups
administrators to specify a Homebox to be used as the group homepage for any
Organic Group. Homebox OG does not do sufficient filtering of user supplied
text which presents a cross site scripting vulnerability.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a user
account with a role permitted to create or edit an Organic Groups node.

-------- VERSIONS AFFECTED  
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  * Homebox 6.x-2.x versions.
  * Homebox 6.x-3.x versions prior to 6.x-3.0-beta3.
  * Homebox 7.x-2.x versions prior to 7.x-2.0-beta4.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Homebox [4]
module, there is nothing you need to do.

-------- SOLUTION  
------------------------------------------------------------

Install the latest version:

  * If you use the Homebox module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Homebox
    6.x-3.0-beta5 [5] note that 6.x-2.x branch is no longer supported users of
    6.x-2.x should upgrade to 6.x-3.x
  * If you use the Homebox module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Homebox
    7.x-2.0-beta6 [6]

If you do not use the contributed homebox_og module you do not need to
upgrade.

See also the Homebox [7] project page.

-------- REPORTED BY  
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  * Greg Knaddison [8] of the Drupal Security Team

-------- FIXED BY  
------------------------------------------------------------

  * Brian Vuyk [9] the module maintainer

-------- COORDINATED BY  
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  * Greg Knaddison [10] of the Drupal Security Team

-------- CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION  
----------------------------------------

The Drupal security team can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the
contact form at http://drupal.org/contact [11].

Learn more about the Drupal Security team and their policies [12], writing
secure code for Drupal [13], and securing your site [14].


[1] http://drupal.org/project/homebox
[2] http://drupal.org/security-team/risk-levels
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
[4] http://drupal.org/project/homebox
[5] http://drupal.org/node/1300578
[6] http://drupal.org/node/1300428
[7] http://drupal.org/project/homebox
[8] http://drupal.org/user/36762
[9] http://drupal.org/user/46854
[10] http://drupal.org/user/36762
[11] http://drupal.org/contact
[12] http://drupal.org/security-team
[13] http://drupal.org/writing-secure-code
[14] http://drupal.org/security/secure-configuration