A vulnerability and a security issue have been reported in IBM WebSphere Portal. The security issue has an unknown impact and the vulnerability can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Input passed via the "People Picker Tag" in Websphere Portal Collaboration 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.

2) A security issue is caused due to an unspecified error related to "XMLACCESS". Further information is currently not available.

Solution
IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1:
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Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
IBM (PK93429, PK93783):
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27014411

Deep Links
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