phpMyAdmin Two Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA16605
Release Date: 2005-08-29
Last Update: 2005-09-27
Popularity: 9,390 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:phpMyAdmin 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2869


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Input passed to some parameter in libraries/auth/cookie.auth.lib.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to users in the cookie-based login panel. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

2) Input passed to the "error" parameter in error.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

Solution:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in version 2.6.4-rc1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Andreas Kerber
2) Michal Cihar

Changelog:
2005-09-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index....40&group_id=23067&atid=377408
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index....80&group_id=23067&atid=377408


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