phpMyAdmin UTF-7 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22599
Release Date: 2006-11-01
Last Update: 2006-11-08
Popularity: 9,339 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-2006-5718


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.

Original Advisory:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6

Other References:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.html


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