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Project: Domain Group
Date: 2021-September-22
Security risk: Critical 18∕25
Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

This module enables sites to define a domain from Domain Access that points directly to a group page.

The module doesn't sufficiently manage the access to content administrative paths allowing an attacker to see and take actions on content (nodes) they should be allowed to.

Solution

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Project: Taxonomy Manager
Date: 2021-September-22
Security risk: Moderately critical 10∕25
Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

This module provides a powerful interface for managing a taxonomy vocabulary. A vocabulary gets displayed in a dynamic tree view, where parent terms can be expanded to list their nested child terms or can be collapsed.

The module does not take the correct user permissions into account, allowing an attacker to delete and move terms.

Project: File Extractor
Date: 2021-September-22
Security risk: Critical 15∕25
Vulnerability: Arbitrary PHP code execution

Description

This module enables you to extract the textual content of files for use on a website, e.g. to display it or or use it in search indexes.

The module doesn't sufficiently protect the administrator-defined commands which are executed on the server, which leads to post-authentication remote code execution by a limited set of users.

Project: Client-side Hierarchical Select
Date: 2021-September-22
Security risk: Moderately critical 13∕25
Vulnerability: Cross-site scripting

Description

The module provides a field widget for selecting taxonomy terms in a hierarchical fashion.

The module doesn't sanitize user input in certain cases, leading to a possible Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.