Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

PMASA-2016-38

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-38

Date: 2016-07-13

Summary

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities were found in the following areas:

• Navigation pane and database/table hiding feature. A specially-crafted database name can be used to trigger an XSS attack.
• The “Tracking” feature. A specially-crafted query can be used to trigger an XSS attack.
• GIS visualization feature.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non-critical.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4) and 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-6615

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:

• 20db714
• 6e8a1c0
• d0b6abf

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

• 306c148
• 78bed3c
• cc7d01d

More information

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