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phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA30813
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Last Update: 2008-07-09
Popularity: 3,941 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-2008-2960


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

Input passed via unspecified parameters to files in /libraries 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.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled and support for ".htaccess" files is disabled.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.11.7.

Solution:
Update to version 2.11.7.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Tim Starling, Wikimedia

Changelog:
2008-07-09: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-4


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