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TITLE:
Drupal Award Module Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39809

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39809/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Award module for Drupal,
which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion
attacks.

Input passed via the award title is not properly sanitised before
being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's
browser session when the malicious data is being viewed.

Successful exploitation requires permissions to create Award
content.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 6.x-1.1 and
5.x-1.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.

Award module 6.x:
Update to version 6.x-1.1.
http://drupal.org/node/795828

Award module 5.x:
Update to version 5.x-1.2.
http://drupal.org/node/795836

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Martin Barbella.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SA-CONTRIB-2010-046:
http://drupal.org/node/797236

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