Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the User Protect module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
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TITLE:
Drupal User Protect Module Cross-Site Request Forgery
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37283
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37283/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the User Protect module for
Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site request forgery attacks.
The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP
requests without performing any validity checks to verify the
requests. This can be exploited to e.g. delete protections imposed on
users or change settings for user administrators.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.x-1.4 and
6.x-1.3.
SOLUTION:
User Protect 5.x:
Update to version 5.x-1.4.
http://drupal.org/node/623180
User Protect 6.x:
Update to version 6.x-1.3.
http://drupal.org/node/623186
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Chad Phillips.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SA-CONTRIB-2009-090:
http://drupal.org/node/623162
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