SA-CONTRIB-2014-027 - NewsFlash Theme - XSS

Newsflash is a theme that features 7 color styles, 12 collapsible regions, suckerfish menus, fluid or fixed widths, built-in IE transparent PNG fix, and lots more.

The theme does not sanitize the user provided theme setting for the font family CSS property, thereby exposing a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission “administer themes”.

CVE identifier(s) issued

• CVE-2014-8077

Versions affected

• NewsFlash 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.7.
• NewsFlash 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-2.5.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed NewsFlash theme, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

• If you use the theme NewsFlash for Drupal 7.x, upgrade to NewsFlash 7.x-2.5
• If you use the theme NewsFlash for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to NewsFlash 6.x-1.7

Also see the NewsFlash project page.

Reported by

• Dennis Walgaard

Fixed by

• Alyx Vance the theme maintainer

Coordinated by

• Klaus Purer of the Drupal Security Team