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phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA19556
Release Date: 2006-04-07
Last Update: 2006-04-13
Popularity: 10,739 views

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

Software:phpMyAdmin 1.x
phpMyAdmin 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1678


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

Some input passed to various scripts in the themes directory 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.

Solution:
Update to version 2.8.0.3.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23067

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Toni Koivunen/CERT-FI.

Changelog:
2006-04-13: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-1


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