XSS vulnerability in SQL parser.

PMASA-2016-10

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-10

Date: 2016-02-25

Summary

XSS vulnerability in SQL parser.

Description

Using a crafted SQL query, it is possible to trigger an XSS attack through the SQL query 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 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.5.1) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.5.5.1 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-2559

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.5 branch to fix this issue:

• 3a6a9a807d99371ee126635e1a505fc1fe0df32c

More information

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