ASA-202106-35: drupal: cross-site scripting
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202106-35
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Severity: High
Date : 2021-06-15
CVE-ID : CVE-2021-33829
Package : drupal
Type : cross-site scripting
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2069
Summary
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The package drupal before version 9.1.10-1 is vulnerable to cross-site
scripting.
Resolution
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Upgrade to 9.1.10-1.
# pacman -Syu "drupal>=9.1.10-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 9.1.10.
Workaround
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None.
Description
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Drupal core uses the third-party CKEditor library. This library has an
error in parsing HTML that could lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
attack. CKEditor 4.16.1 and later, as bundled with Drupal 9.1.9,
include the fix.
Impact
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A remote attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript code through
cross-site scripting using crafted HTML code.
References
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https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-003
https://ckeditor.com/blog/ckeditor-4.16.1-with-accessibility-enhancements/#improvements-for-comments-in-html-parser
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-33829
A drupal security update has been released for Arch Linux.