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TITLE:
Drupal Taxonomy Module Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20412

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20412/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Drupal 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/342/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "name" parameter in /modules/taxonomy.module
isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can
be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in 4.6.x versions prior to 4.6.8,
and in 4.7.x versions prior to 4.7.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to the fixed version 4.6.8 or 4.7.2, or apply patch.
http://drupal.org/project

Patch for Drupal 4.6.7:
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-008/4.6.7.patch

Patch for Drupal 4.7.1:
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2006-008/4.7.1.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Bart Jansens.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://drupal.org/node/66767

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