SA-2008-018 – Drupal core – Cross site scripting

  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-018
  • Project: Drupal core
  • Version: 6.0
  • Date: 2008-February-27
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Description

Titles are not escaped prior to being displayed on content edit forms, allowing users to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into these pages.

The Drupal.checkPlain function, used to escape text in ECMAScript, contains a bug which causes it to escape only the first instance of a character, allowing users to inject arbitrary HTML and script code in certain pages.

Wikipedia has more information about cross site scripting (XSS).

Versions affected

  • Drupal 6.x before version 6.1.

Solution

Install the latest version:

If you are unable to upgrade immediately, you can apply a patch to secure your installation until you are able to do a proper upgrade.

Reported by

  • Steve McKenzie discovered the ECMAScript issue
  • The Drupal security team

Contact

The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.

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