A vulnerability has been discovered in the IAH (Interface for Access of Health Information) module for WWWISIS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "exprSearch" parameter in iah.xis 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 is confirmed in version 2.6.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by
JosS and an anonymous person

Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/4529

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