DRUPAL-SA-2006-024 - Drupal core - Multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

By Heine on 12 Oct 2006 at 11:47 UTC

Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2006-024
Project: Drupal core
Date: 2006-Oct-18
Security risk: Moderately critical
Exploitable from: Remote
Vulnerability: Cross site scripting

Description

Multiple XSS (cross site scripting) vulnerabilities have been discovered.

A bug in input validation and lack of output validation allows HTML and script insertion on several pages.

Drupal's XML parser passes unescaped data to watchdog under certain circumstances. A malicious user may execute an XSS attack via a specially crafted RSS feed. This vulnerability exists on systems that do not use PHP's mb_string extension (to check if mb_string is being used, navigate to admin/settings and look under "String handling"). Disabling the aggregator module provides an immediate workaround.

The aggregator module, profile module, and forum module do not properly escape output of certain fields.

Note: XSS attacks may lead to administrator access if certain conditions are met. Learn more about XSS on Wikipedia.

Versions affected

Drupal 4.6.x versions before Drupal 4.6.10
Drupal 4.7.x versions before Drupal 4.7.4

Solution

If you are running Drupal 4.6.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.6.10.
If you are running Drupal 4.7.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.7.4.

To patch Drupal 4.6.9 use http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-024/4.6.9.patch.
To patch Drupal 4.7.3 use http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-024/4.7.3.patch.

Please note that the patches only contain changes related to this advisory, and do not fix bugs that were solved in 4.6.10 or 4.7.4.

Reported by

The XML parser vulnerability was reported by Erdem Köse.
The forum module vulnerability was reported by Jim Phlew.
The other vulnerabilities were found by members of the Drupal security team.