Description: A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input containing UTF-7 encoded characters passed to the script which displays error messages is not 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 vulnerability is reported in versions 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2.
Solution: Update to version 2.9.0.3.
Provided and/or discovered by: Stefan Esser.
Changelog: 2006-11-02: Added link to Hardened-PHP Project advisory.
2006-11-08: Added CVE reference.
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