By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2014-073
  • Project: Date (third-party module)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2014-July-30
  • Security risk: Moderately Critical
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

Date module provides flexible date/time field type Date field and a Date API that other modules can use.

The module incorrectly prints date field titles without proper sanitization thereby opening a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

The vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a permission to create Date fields, such as "administer taxonomy" to add date fields on taxonomy terms.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2014-5169

Versions affected

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

  • If you use the date module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Date 7.x-2.8

Also see the Date project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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