XSS vulnerability in normalization page.

PMASA-2016-7

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-7

Date: 2016-01-24

Summary

XSS vulnerability in normalization page.

Description

With a crafted table name it is possible to trigger an XSS attack in the database normalization 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 page.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.3) and 4.5.x (prior to 4.5.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.3 or newer, 4.5.4 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-2043

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

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

• 8f86713de6163ccd0f8bd9987251a9d17feaee18

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

• 019c4f25d500ec5db9ba3b84cc961a7e4e850738

More information

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