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By Drupal Security Team on
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-005
- Project: Vote Up/Down (third-party module)
- Version: 6.x
- Date: 2012-January-11
- Security risk: Moderately critical
- Exploitable from: Remote
- Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting
Description
CVE: CVE-2012-1627
This module enables you to add voting widgets to nodes, terms and comments.
The vud_term sub-module doesn't sufficiently sanitize taxonomy terms before display.
In order to execute arbitrary script injection malicious users must have the ability to create or edit taxonomy terms.
Versions affected
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Vote Up/Down module, there is nothing you need to do.
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you use a 6.x-2.x version of Vote up/down module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Vote up/down 6.x-2.8.
- If you use a 6.x-3.x version of Vote up/down module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Vote up/down 6.x-3.1.
See also the Vote Up/Down project page.
Reported by
Fixed by
- Marco Villegas the module maintainer
- Greg Knaddison of the Drupal Security Team
Coordinated by
- Greg Knaddison, Drupal security team member
Contact and More Information
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