• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-097
  • Project: Protest (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x, 7.x
  • Date: 2012-June-06
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

Protest allows websites to display a complete page blackout (website protest).

The module contains a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability as it fails to sanitize user input before display.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "administer protest".

CVE: CVE-2012-2726

Versions affected

  • Protest 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.2.
  • Protest 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.2.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Protest module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Protest project page.

Reported by

Fixed by

Coordinated by

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