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Drupal core - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CORE-2022-004

Drupal core - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CORE-2022-004

Project: Drupal core
Date: 2022-February-16
Security risk: Moderately critical 12∕25
Vulnerability: Information disclosure

Description

The Quick Edit module does not properly check entity access in some circumstances. This could result in users with the "access in-place editing" permission viewing some content they are are not authorized to access.

Sites are only affected if the QuickEdit module (which comes with the Standard profile) is installed.

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Drupal core - Moderately critical - Improper input validation - SA-CORE-2022-003

Drupal core - Moderately critical - Improper input validation - SA-CORE-2022-003

Project: Drupal core
Date: 2022-February-16
Security risk: Moderately critical 14∕25
Vulnerability: Improper input validation
CVE IDs: CVE-2022-25271

Description

Drupal core's form API has a vulnerability where certain contributed or custom modules' forms may be vulnerable to improper input validation. This could allow an attacker to inject disallowed values or overwrite data. Affected forms are uncommon, but in certain cases an attacker could alter critical or sensitive data.

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Fancy File Delete - Moderately critical - Access Bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2022-023

Fancy File Delete - Moderately critical - Access Bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2022-023

Project: Fancy File Delete
Date: 2022-February-09
Security risk: Moderately critical 14∕25 
Vulnerability: Access Bypass

Description

This module enables you to manage and delete files.

The module doesn't sufficiently protect unmanaged files from view under the scenario unauthenticated user knows path to visit the view and can attempt to delete files which results in duplicate files being created.

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Custom Breadcrumbs - Less critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-024

Custom Breadcrumbs - Less critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-024

Project: Custom Breadcrumbs
Date: 2022-February-09
Security risk: Less critical 8∕25 
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

The Custom Breadcrumbs module provides a variety of options for customizing the breadcrumb trail.

The module doesn't sufficiently filter on output, leading to a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "Administer custom breadcrumbs" permission.

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Is Drupal affected by Log4j vulnerabilities?

Is Drupal affected by Log4j shell vulnerabilities?

Since the new vulnerability for Apache Log4j detected in December 2021 got massive news coverage around the globe, we started receiving concerned questions from our customers about how this could affect their Drupal websites hosted on AltaGrade platform. And such Log4j-related support requests still continue to be filed in our customer support portal and because they all have the same or similar resolutions, I decided to summarize them here in form of questions and answers.

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Multiple contributed projects have been marked unsupported by Drupal Security Team today

Multiple contributed projects have been marked unsupported by Drupal Security Team today

Because of known security issues for the contributed modules and themes which have not been fixed by their maintainer, as of today - January 25, 2022 - the Drupal Security Team has marked them all as unsupported.

If you are an AltaGrade customer with Drupal websites hosted on our platform and using the following modules or themes, then please let us know and we will make necessary changes.

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Navbar - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-011

Navbar - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-011

Project: Navbar
Date: 2022-January-25
Security risk: Moderately critical 13∕25
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

This module provides a very simple, mobile-friendly navigation toolbar.

The module doesn't sufficiently check for user-provided input.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have the ability to post content using a text format (like the default "Filtered HTML" format) that won't filter out the exploit code.

Solution

Install the latest version:

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Private Taxonomy Terms - Critical - Access bypass, Information Disclosure, Multiple vulnerabilities - SA-CONTRIB-2022-014

Private Taxonomy Terms - Critical - Access bypass, Information Disclosure, Multiple vulnerabilities - SA-CONTRIB-2022-014

Project: Private Taxonomy Terms
Date: 2022-January-26
Security risk: Critical 15∕25
Vulnerability: Access bypass, Information Disclosure, Multiple vulnerabilities

Description

This module enables users to create 'private' vocabularies.

The module doesn't sufficiently check user access permissions when attempting to view, edit, or add terms to vocabularies, including vocabularies not managed by the module.

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jQuery UI Datepicker - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-004

jQuery UI Datepicker - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2022-004

Project: jQuery UI Datepicker
Date: 2022-January-19
Security risk: Moderately critical 14∕25 
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Description

jQuery UI is a third-party library used by Drupal. The jQuery UI Datepicker module provides the jQuery UI Datepicker library, which is not included in Drupal 9 core.

jQuery UI was previously thought to be end-of-life.

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