Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

PMASA-2016-31

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-31

Date: 2016-07-11

Summary

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Description

XSS vulnerabilities were discovered in:

• The database privilege check
• The “Remove partitioning” functionality

Specially crafted database names can trigger the XSS attack.

Severity

We consider these vulnerabilities to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6608

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• f0f8f2b
• 0fad729
• a32b3ce
• 7e510e8

More information

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