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By Drupal Security Team on
- Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2015-098
- Project: Keyword Research (third-party module)
- Version: 6.x
- Date: 2015-April-22
- Security risk: 13/25 ( Moderately Critical) AC:Basic/A:None/CI:None/II:Some/E:Theoretical/TD:All
- Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery
Description
Keyword Research module enables you to tag and prioritize keywords on a site and node level basis.
The module doesn't sufficiently protect some URLs against CSRF. A malicious user can cause another user with "kwresearch admin site keywords" permission to create, delete and set priorities to keywords by getting their browser to make a request to a specially-crafted URL.
CVE identifier(s) issued
- CVE-2015-4396
Versions affected
- Keyword Research 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.2.
Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Keyword Research module, there is nothing you need to do.
Solution
Install the latest version:
- If you use the Keyword Research module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Keyword Research 6.x-1.2
Also see the Keyword Research project page.
Reported by
- Pere Orga of the Drupal Security Team
Fixed by
- Tom McCracken the module maintainer
Coordinated by
- Pere Orga of the Drupal Security Team
Contact and More Information
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