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phpMyAdmin Local File Inclusion and Cross-Site Scripting Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA17289  
Release Date: 2005-10-24
Last Update: 2005-11-02

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:phpMyAdmin 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-3300 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-3301 (Secunia mirror)

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

1) Input passed to certain configuration parameters in some scripts isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

2) Some unspecified input passed to "left.php", "queryframe.php", and "server_databases.php" isn't 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 vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.6.4-pl2 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 2.6.4-pl3 or later.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Stefan Esser, Hardened-PHP Project
2) Tobias Klein

Changelog:
2005-11-02: Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
Hardened-PHP Project:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_162005.73.html

phpMyAdmin:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-5



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