Date: 
Wednesday, Nov 13th, 2019
Advisory ID: 
BACKDROP-SA-CONTRIB-2019-013
Security risk: 
Critical
Vulnerability: 
Cross Site Scripting
Versions affected: 
  • Nodequeue 1.x versions prior to  1.x-2.2.0
Description: 

This module enables you to collect nodes in an arbitrarily ordered list.

Nodequeue's JavaScript can be leveraged to insert HTML from attacker-controlled JSON data. This is exploitable if user-submitted "Filtered HTML" content is displayed on a page where nodequeue.js is loaded.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "manipulate queues".

Solution: 

Upgrade your site to the most recent version of Nodequeue. Download available on the Nodequeue release page. 

See the update instructions, if needed.

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