By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-164
  • Project: Smiley (third-party module)
  • Project: Smileys (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x
  • Date: 2012-November-14
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

These modules enable you to substitutes text emoticons, like :-), with images.

These modules don't sufficiently sanitize user defined smiley acronyms before displaying smiley images.

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

These two modules are based on the same codebase and Smiley was forked due to lack of new feature development in the Smileys project. This single Security Advisory covers the same issue in the code of both modules.

CVE: CVE-2012-5558

Versions affected

  • Smiley 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.1.
  • Smileys 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.1.

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

  • If you use the Smiley module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Smiley 6.x-1.1
  • If you use the Smileys module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Smileys 6.x-1.1

Also see the Smiley project page.

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Contact and More Information

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