By Drupal Security Team on
  • Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2010-089
  • Project: Simplenews content selection (third-party module)
  • Version: 6.x
  • Date: 2010-August-18
  • Security risk: Less critical
  • Exploitable from: Remote
  • Vulnerability: Cross site scripting

Description

This module allows you to select content from your website and send a newsletter with the selected content.

The module does not sanitize some of the user-supplied data before displaying it, leading to a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that may lead to a malicious user gaining full administrative access.

Versions affected

  • Simplenews Content Selection module 6.x-1.5

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

Solution

Install the latest version:

See also the Simplenews Content Selection project page.

Reported by

Fixed by

Contact

The Drupal security team can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the form at http://drupal.org/contact.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x