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Date: Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Security risk: Moderately Critical
Advisory ID: BACKDROP-SA-CORE-2021-003
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting

Versions affected

• Backdrop Core 1.19.x versions prior to 1.19.1
• Backdrop Core 1.18.x versions prior to 1.18.5

Backdrop versions 1.17 and prior do not receive security coverage.

Description

Backdrop core uses the third-party CKEditor library. This library has an error in parsing HTML that could lead to an XSS attack.

WordPress 5.7.2 is now available. This security release features one security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated.

WordPress 5.7.2 is a short-cycle security release. The next major release will be version 5.8. You can update to WordPress 5.7.2 by downloading from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard → Updates and click Update Now.

If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.

Project: Facets
Version: 8.x-1.x-dev
Date: 2021-May-12
Security risk: Moderately critical 11∕25
Vulnerability: Cross site scripting

Description

This module enables you to add customizable facets on search pages, from core search or searches provided by Search API.

The module doesn't sufficiently filter all output in certain circumstances.

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

Project: SAML Authentication
Date: 2021-April-28
Security risk: Moderately critical 14∕25
Vulnerability: Access bypass

Description

The SAML Authentication module allows users to authenticate against a SAML identity provider to login to your Drupal site.