By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2012-128
  • Project: Elegant Theme (third-party module)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2012-August-15
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

Elegant Theme is a light weight Drupal 7 theme with a modern look and feel.

The theme doesn't properly sanitize user-entered content in the 3 slide gallery on the homepage leading to a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker would have to have the 'administer themes' permission.

CVE: Requested

Versions affected

  • Elegant Theme 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.0.

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Elegant Theme project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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