By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2013-013
  • Project: Boxes (third-party module)
  • Version: 7.x
  • Date: 2013-January-30
  • Security risk: Moderately critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

The subject field for the included simple box doesn't escape HTML properly.
This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission to administer/edit boxes.

Wikipedia has more information about cross site scripting (XSS).

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • CVE-2013-0259

Versions affected

  • Boxes 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.1

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

  • If you use the Boxes module for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to Boxes 7.x-1.1

Also see the Boxes project page.

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Fixed by

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Contact and More Information

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