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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2009-2079

Low
3.5/10

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrative page interface in Taxonomy manager 5.x before 5.x-1.2 and 6.x before 6.x-1.1, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users, with administer taxonomy privileges or the ability to use free tagging to add taxonomy terms, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) vocabulary names, (2) synonyms, and (3) term names.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published