CVE-2009-2079

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.

• CWE-79

• http://drupal.org/node/487602Patch
• http://drupal.org/node/487620Patch
• http://drupal.org/node/487818Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://lampsecurity.org/drupal-6-taxonomy-manager-xss-vulnerabilityExploit, URL Repurposed
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35391Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35286
• http://drupal.org/node/487602Patch
• http://drupal.org/node/487620Patch
• http://drupal.org/node/487818Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://lampsecurity.org/drupal-6-taxonomy-manager-xss-vulnerabilityExploit, URL Repurposed
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35391Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35286

Published

Jun 16, 2009

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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