By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2013-048
  • Project: Edit Limit (third-party module)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2013-May-29
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

Edit Limit enables you to set time and count-based limits on how and when a user can edit nodes or comments.

The module doesn't sufficiently check user access when editing comments to see if the user has the necessary permissions to edit a comment outside of the limits applied by this module. This makes it possible for a user who can edit their own comments to edit the comments of any other user.

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

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2013-2122

Versions affected

  • Edit Limit 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.3.

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Edit Limit project page.

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Fixed by

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