PT-2009-1471 · Drupal · Simplenews

Published 2009-01-28 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5996

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.5

Low

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Simplenews module versions 5.x before 5.x-1.5 Simplenews module versions 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users with "administer taxonomy" permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Newsletter category field. This is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Recommendations For Simplenews module versions 5.x before 5.x-1.5, update to version 5.x-1.5 or later. For Simplenews module versions 6.x before 6.x-1.0-beta4, update to version 6.x-1.0-beta4 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5996

Affected Products

Simplenews

References · 5

• http://drupal.org/node/312944 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5996 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31377 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45407 · Note