phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Cal Evans (Editor-in-Chief) |
Comments Off | April 24th, 2007
p. The following phpMySQL security advisory was released today on the Secunia Security Advisory list.
“http://secunia.com/advisories/24952/”:http://secunia.com/advisories/24952/
h3. Description:
p. Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
p. 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.
p. The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.10.1.
h3. Solution:
p. Update to version 2.10.1.
