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XSS vulnerability in drupal_youtube service

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Created on 12 July 2023, over 1 year ago
Updated 29 August 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

The drupal_youtube service does not sanitize attribute values and is vulnerable to an XSS vulnerability.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Enable the drupal_youtube service.
  2. Create a text format that allows div tags with class and data-width attributes (but not the data-onload attribute).
  3. Create a node using this text format and insert this HTML in the field:
      <div class="youtube_player" data-width="&quot; onload=&quot;alert(`xss`);&quot;">Foo</div>
  4. The width attribute is not sanitized when building the iframe so the onload attribute is injected (thus bypassing the attribute restrictions from the text format).

Proposed resolution

I think Drupal.checkPlain() can be used to sanitize the attribute.
But the best practice is probably to build the iframe with DOM functions like createElement() and setAttribute().

🐛 Bug report
Status

Fixed

Version

1.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇫🇷France prudloff Lille

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