Description: Thomas Pollet has discovered a vulnerability in TikiWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "highlight" parameter in tiki-searchindex.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.9.4. Other versions may also be affected.
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