XSS vulnerability

PMASA-2007-8

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2007-8

Date: 2007-11-20

Summary

XSS vulnerability

Description

We received an advisory from Tim Brown, Nth Dimension, and we wish to thank him for his work. The login page (auth_type cookie) was vulnerable to XSS via the convcharset parameter.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be serious.

Affected Versions

Probably all versions before 2.11.2.2.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.11.2.2 or newer.

References

<http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/downloads.php?id=38&gt;

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2007-6100

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 960064b55f68cd74969e8f0eee56da045f6ea57a

More information

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