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phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA24952
Release Date: 2007-04-24
Last Update: 2007-04-27
Popularity: 8,554 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-2007-2245


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

Input passed to the "fieldkey" parameter in browse_foreigners.php and input passed to the "PMA_sanitize()" function 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 vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.10.0.2 and all earlier versions.

Solution:
Update to version 2.10.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits SP3X, SecurityReason.

Changelog:
2007-04-25: Updated "Description" and "Original Advisory" sections.
2007-04-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
PMASA-2007-4:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-4

phpMyAdmin ChangeLog:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ChangeLog.txt


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