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title: "TYPO3-EXT-SA-2015-002: Multiple vulnerabilities in Content Rating (content_rating)"
url: "https://news.typo3.com/security/advisory/typo3-ext-sa-2015-002"
description: "It has been discovered that the extension \"Content Rating\" (content_rating) is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection."
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# TYPO3-EXT-SA-2015-002: Multiple vulnerabilities in Content Rating (content_rating)

- Security / [TYPO3 Extensions](https://news.typo3.com/article/category/security/typo3-extensions)

TYPO3-EXT-SA-2015-002: Multiple vulnerabilities in Content Rating (content\_rating)
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09 January 2015

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It has been discovered that the extension "Content Rating" (content\_rating) is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection.

- ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/bbf959d8e683550c90ae922aff9145d8.jpeg)[Marcus Krause](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/marcus-krause)

**Release Date:** January 9, 2015

**Bulletin Update:** February 23, 2015 (added CVEs)

**Component Type:** Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default installation.

**Affected Versions:** 1.0.3 and all versions below

**Vulnerability Type:** Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection

**Severity:** High

**Suggested CVSS v2.0:** AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:POC/RL:U/RC:C

**CVE:** CVE-2015-1402 (Cross-Site Scripting), CVE-2015-1403 (SQL Injection)

**Problem Description:** The extension fails to properly escape user input in HTML and SQL context.

**Solution:** Versions of this extension that are known to be vulnerable will no longer be available for download from the TYPO3 Extension Repository. The extension author failed in providing a security fix for the reported vulnerability in a decent amount of time. Please uninstall and delete the extension folder from your installation.

**Credits:** Credits go to Steffen Müller who discovered and reported the vulnerabilities.

**General advice:** Follow the recommendations that are given in the [TYPO3 Security Guide](http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/SecurityGuide/ "Initiates file download"). Please subscribe to the [typo3-announce mailing list](http://lists.typo3.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-announce "Opens external link in new window") to receive future Security Bulletins via E-mail.

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