[SA21779] Drupal Pathauto Module Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

TITLE:
Drupal Pathauto Module Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21779

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21779/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Pathauto 4.x (module for Drupal)
http://secunia.com/product/11864/

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

Some unspecified input is not 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 versions 4.6 and 4.7 where the
CVS $Id$ field in the path_autonode.inc file is older than "/* $Id:
pathauto_node.inc,v 1.14.2.1 2006/08/30 19:16:25 greggles Exp $ /"
and "/ $Id: pathauto_node.inc,v 1.17.2.1 2006/08/30 20:29:16
greggles Exp $ */".

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.

Pathauto for Drupal 4.6:
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/pathauto-4.6.0.tar.gz

Pathauto for Drupal 4.7:
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/pathauto-4.7.0.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Erdem Kose.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://drupal.org/node/82527

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