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By Drupal Security Team on
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-071
- Project: Glossify Internal Links Auto SEO (third-party module)
- Version: 6.x
- Date: 2012-May-02
- Security risk: Moderately critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
Description
CVE: CVE-2012-2309
This module generates internal node to node, node to taxonomy or node to external URL links (crosslinks) automatically - ideal for SEO of your site's pages and partner pages.
This module does not protect against an Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack. The vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that the attacker must be able to create or edit any of: content (nodes), vocabularies, or terms.
Versions affected
- 6.x-2.5 and before
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Glossify Internal Links Auto SEO module, there is nothing you need to do.
Solution
Uninstall the module, it is no longer supported.
Also see the Glossify Internal Links Auto SEO project page.
Reported by
- Andrei Turcanu
Coordinated by
- Michael Hess of the Drupal Security Team
Contact and More Information
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