By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2014-016
  • Project: MAYO (third-party theme)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2014-02-12
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

The theme settings allow you to link to a header background file.
A URL could be entered that was not properly sanitized leading to XSS vulnerability.
This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "administer themes".

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2014-8079

Versions affected

  • MAYO Theme 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.3.

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

  • If you use the theme MAYO for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to MAYO 7.x-1.3

Also see the MAYO project page.

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Fixed by

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