Fedora 10: 2009-8162 Moderate: drupal-date Module XSS Risk

The Date API is available to be used by other modules and is not dependent

on having CCK installed. The date module is a flexible date/time field

type for the cck content module which requires the CCK content.module and

the Date API module.

* Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2009-046 * Project: Date (third-party module) * Version: 6.x * Date: 2009-July-29 * Security risk: Moderately critical * Exploitable from: Remote * Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting The Date module provides a date CCK field that can be added to any content type. The Date Tools module that is bundled with Date module does not properly escape user input when displaying labels for fields on a content type. A malicious user with the 'use date tools' permission of the Date Tools sub- module, or the 'administer content types' permission could attempt a cross site scripting [1] (XSS) attack when creating a new content type, leading to the user gaining full administrative access. -------- VERSIONS AFFECTED prior to 6.x-2.3 Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Date module, there is nothing you need to do. -------- SOLUTION latest version: * If you use Date for Drupal 6.x upgrade to Date 6.x-2.3 [2] Note th...