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Drupal Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31028
Release Date: 2008-07-10
Last Update: 2008-07-24
Popularity: 4,046 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Drupal 5.x
Drupal 6.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, SQL injection, and script insertion attacks.

1) Certain input passed via taxonomy terms is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when a user selects a term and previews the node.

2) Certain input passed from OpenID providers is not properly sanitised before being returned to a user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

These vulnerabilities reportedly affected version 6.x only.

3) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to e.g. delete OpenID identities or translation strings by enticing a logged-in user to visit a malicious site.

4) Certain input passed to numeric fields in the Schema API is not properly sanitised before being used in an SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 5.x and 6.x.

Solution:
Update to the latest versions or apply patch for version 5.7 or 6.2.

Drupal 5.x:
Update to version 5.8.
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-5.8.tar.gz

Drupal 6.x
Update to version 6.3.
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.3.tar.gz

Drupal 5.7:
Apply patch.
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-044/SA-2008-044-5.7.patch

Drupal 6.2:
Apply patch.
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-044/SA-2008-044-6.2.patch

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits John Morahan, Peter Wolanin (Drupal security team), Neil Drumm (Drupal security team), and Heine Deelstra (Drupal security team).

Changelog:
2008-07-24: Moved previous vulnerability #4 to SA31211 as it was not patched in version 5.8.

Original Advisory:
http://drupal.org/node/280571


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