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Drupal "taxonomy_select_nodes()" SQL Injection Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27932  
Release Date: 2007-12-06
Last Update: 2007-12-11

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Drupal 4.x
Drupal 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-6299 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "taxonomy_select_nodes()" function is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation requires that a module that passes unsanitised data to "taxonomy_select_nodes()" is installed. Some of these modules are:
* taxonomy_menu
* ajaxLoader
* ubrowser

The vulnerability is reported in all Drupal 4.7.x versions before 4.7.9 and all Drupal 5.x versions before 5.4.

Solution:
Update to version 4.7.9 or 5.4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Nadid Skywalker and Ivan Sergio Borgonovo.

Changelog:
2007-12-11: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
SA-2007-031:
http://drupal.org/node/198162



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