XSS vulnerability in Crucible Comments Search

We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Crucible comments search.

Affected versions are Crucible 2.2.6 to 2.5.0 inclusive.

XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a FishEye/Crucible page. You can read more about XSS attacks at various places on the web, including these:

• cgisecurity.com: http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/xss-faq.shtml
• The Web Application Security Consortium: http://projects.webappsec.org/Cross-Site+Scripting

This issue is reported in our security advisory on these pages:

• http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/VgAwDg
• http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/WAAwDg