Cross-site scripting in Drupal - CVE-2015-6665

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Cross-site scripting in Drupal - CVE-2015-6665

Published: September 16, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU497
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-6665
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-input. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user’s browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Drupal
Fedora
drupal6
drupal7

How to mitigate CVE-2015-6665


drupal6 - addressed in versions 6.37-1.el5, 6.37-1.el6, 6.37-1.fc21, 6.37-1.fc22, 6.37-1.fc23
drupal7 - addressed in versions 7.39-1.el5, 7.39-1.el6, 7.39-1.el7, 7.39-1.fc21, 7.39-1.fc22, 7.39-1.fc23

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