References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4299
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19654

Since the vendor appears to be asleep at the wheel, and Google turned
up nothing helpful, I've attempted my own fix for this vulnerability.
As I've found no exploit code to speak of, can anyone confirm that
this fix does indeed correct the issue?

tikiwiki-1.9.4-cve_2006_4299.patch:

diff -Nur -x '*.orig' -x '*.rej' tikiwiki-1.9.4/tiki-searchindex.php mezzanine_patched_tikiwiki-1.9.4/tiki-searchindex.php
--- tikiwiki-1.9.4/tiki-searchindex.php 2006-08-25 20:04:38.000000000 -0400
+++ mezzanine_patched_tikiwiki-1.9.4/tiki-searchindex.php 2006-08-25 20:04:25.000000000 -0400
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
}

if(isset($_REQUEST["highlight"]) && !empty($_REQUEST["highlight"])) {
- $_REQUEST["words"]=$_REQUEST["highlight"];
+ $_REQUEST["words"]=htmlspecialchars($_REQUEST["highlight"]);
}

if ($feature_search_stats == 'y') {

Thanks,
Michael

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