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SA-CONTRIB-2014-088 – Mollom – Cross-site scripting (XSS)

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Description

Mollom is an “intelligent” content moderation web service which determines if a post is potentially spam; not only based on the posted content, but also on the past activity and reputation of the poster across multiple sites.

Mollom offers a feature to report submitted content as inappropriate which allows end users to indicate that a piece of site content is objectionable or out of place. When reporting content, the content title is not sufficiently sanitized to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission to create content and the content type must be enabled for “Flag as Inappropriate” within the Mollom advanced configuration settings (which is not the default setting).

CVE identifier(s) issued

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

Versions affected

  • Mollom 6.x-2.x versions from 6.x-2.7 to 6.x-2.10
  • Mollom 7.x-2.x versions from 7.x-2.9 to 7.x-2.10

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Mollom project page.

Reported by

Fixed by

Coordinated by

Contact and More Information

The Drupal security team can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the contact form at
href=”https://www.drupal.org/contact“>https://www.drupal.org/contact.

Learn more about the Drupal Security team and their policies,
writing secure code for Drupal, and
securing your site.

Drupal version: 
Drupal 6.x
Drupal 7.x

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