• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2015-069
• Project: Taxonomy Accordion (third-party module)
• Version: 6.x, 7.x
• Date: 2015-March-04
• Security risk: 14/25 ( Moderately Critical) AC:Basic/A:User/CI:Some/II:Some/E:Theoretical/TD:All
• Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

Taxonomy Accordion module creates a block for each taxonomy vocabularies.

The module doesn’t sufficiently sanitize user supplied text in some pages, thereby exposing a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a user allowed to create/edit taxonomy terms.

CVE identifier(s) issued

• A CVE identifier will be requested, and added upon issuance, in accordance with Drupal Security Team processes.

Versions affected

• All versions of Taxonomy Accordion module

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

Solution

If you use the Taxonomy Accordion module you should uninstall it.

Also see the Taxonomy Accordion project page.

Reported by

• Pere Orga of the Drupal Security Team

Fixed by

Not applicable.

Coordinated by

• Pere Orga of the Drupal Security Team

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