oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- drupal6-views_bulk_operations: XSS due improper escaping of a vocabulary help (SA-CONTRIB-2011-042)

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:22:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Drupal Security Team <security@...pal.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- drupal6-views_bulk_operations: XSS due improper escaping of a vocabulary help (SA-CONTRIB-2011-042)

----- Original Message -----
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
> 
> it was found in the way Drupal Views Builk Operations (VBO) module did
> not escape the vocabulary help properly, when the vocabulary has had user
> tagging enabled and "Modify node taxonomy terms" action was used for
> modification of the taxonomy. A remote attacker could provide a
> specially-crafted URL, which once visited by unsuspecting Drupal user,
> disposing with the 'administer taxonomy' permission / privilege, could
> lead to arbitrary HTML or web script execution (cross-site scripting
> [XSS] attack).
> 
> References:
> [1] http://drupal.org/node/1286844
> [2] http://secunia.com/advisories/46114/
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740553
> 
> Upstream solution:
> 
> Upgrage to 6.x-1.11:
> [4] http://drupal.org/node/1286778
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 

Please use CVE-2011-3373.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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