CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
78.4%
The installed version of phpMyAdmin suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to its failure to sanitize user input to the ‘convcharset’ parameter of the ‘index.php’ script. A remote attacker may use these vulnerabilities to cause arbitrary code to be executed in a user’s browser to steal authentication cookies and the like.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(17689);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/04/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0992");
script_bugtraq_id(12982);
script_name(english:"phpMyAdmin index.php convcharset Parameter XSS");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server contains a PHP script that is affected by a
cross-site scripting vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The installed version of phpMyAdmin suffers from a cross-site
scripting vulnerability due to its failure to sanitize user input to
the 'convcharset' parameter of the 'index.php' script. A remote
attacker may use these vulnerabilities to cause arbitrary code to be
executed in a user's browser to steal authentication cookies and the
like.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.6.2-rc1 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/04/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/04/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"thorough_tests", value:"true");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_family(english:"CGI abuses : XSS");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencies("cross_site_scripting.nasl", "phpMyAdmin_detect.nasl");
script_require_keys("www/phpMyAdmin", "www/PHP");
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
exit(0);
}
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");
include("url_func.inc");
port = get_http_port(default:80, php:TRUE, no_xss:TRUE);
# A simple alert.
xss = "<script>alert('" + SCRIPT_NAME + "');</script>";
# Test an install.
install = get_kb_item(string("www/", port, "/phpMyAdmin"));
if (isnull(install)) exit(0);
matches = eregmatch(string:install, pattern:"^(.+) under (/.*)$");
if (!isnull(matches)) {
dir = matches[2];
# Try to exploit the vulnerability with our XSS.
test_cgi_xss(port: port, cgi: "/index.php", dirs: make_list(dir),
pass_str: xss, qs: string(
"pma_username=&",
"pma_password=&",
"server=1&",
"lang=en-iso-8859-1&",
"convcharset=%5C%22%3E", urlencode(str:xss)
));
}