By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-173
  • Project: Nodewords: D6 Meta Tags (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x
  • Date: 2012-December-05
  • Security risk: Not critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Information Disclosure

Description

This module enables you to assign meta tags on Drupal 6 sites to aid with 3rd party search indexing and sharing on social networks.

The module doesn't correctly filter node content when configured to automatically generate descriptions meta tags from the node text. This lack of filtering could allow some code, e.g. BBCode, to pass through unprocessed and potentially display private or otherwise secret information, links, file paths or other potentially sensitive details. The problem affects the normal 'description' meta tag along with the 'dc.description' and 'og:description' meta tags, all of which used the same logic.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that it is unlikely that sensitive content would be within the extracted portion.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2012-5654

Versions affected

  • Nodewords 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.14.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Nodewords: D6 Meta Tags module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Nodewords: D6 Meta Tags project page.

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Fixed by

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