Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the Recent Comments module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
Drupal Recent Comments Module Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38281
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38281/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Recent Comments module for
Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script
insertion attacks.
Input passed via titles of Recent Comments blocks when using a custom
block title interface is not properly sanitised before being displayed
to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script
code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of
an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 6.x-1.1 and
5.x-1.3.
SOLUTION:
Recent Comments 6.x:
Update to version 6.x-1.1.
http://drupal.org/node/688632
Recent Comments 5.x:
Update to version 5.x-1.3.
http://drupal.org/node/688636
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Dylan Tack of the Drupal Security Team.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SA-CONTRIB-2010-008:
http://drupal.org/node/690734
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