XSS in view operations page.

PMASA-2014-9

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2014-9

Date: 2014-08-17

Summary

XSS in view operations page.

Description

With a crafted view name it is possible to trigger an XSS when dropping the view in view operation page.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Mitigation factor

This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from accessing the required pages.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.1.x (prior to 4.1.14.3) and 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.7.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.1.14.3 or newer, or 4.2.7.1 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.

References

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2014-5274

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 0cd293f5e13aa245e4a57b8d373597cc0e421b6f

The following commits have been made on the 4.1 branch to fix this issue:

• 65eef3d65411b985250487e14f1121754a91c6d5

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.