PMASA-2010-8

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2010-8

Date: 2010-11-29

Summary

XSS attack in database search.

Description

It was possible to conduct a XSS attack using spoofed request on the db search script.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Affected Versions

For 3.x: versions before 3.3.8.1 are affected. For 2.11.x: versions before 2.11.11.1 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.3.8.1 or newer, or 2.11.11.1 if using the 2.11.x family. You can also apply the patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Alexander Opitz for reporting this issue.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2010-4329

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

The following commits have been made on the 2.11 branch to fix this issue:

More information

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

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