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Drupal Taxonomy Module Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA20412  
Release Date: 2006-06-02

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Drupal 4.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "name" parameter in /modules/taxonomy.module isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.8, and in 4.7.x versions prior to 4.7.2.

Solution:
Update to the fixed version 4.6.8 or 4.7.2, or apply patch.
http://drupal.org/project

Patch for Drupal 4.6.7:
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-008/4.6.7.patch

Patch for Drupal 4.7.1:
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-008/4.7.1.patch

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Bart Jansens.

Original Advisory:
http://drupal.org/node/66767



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