PMASA-2014-4
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2014-4
Date: 2014-07-17
Summary
Self-XSS due to unescaped HTML output in database structure page.
Description
With a crafted table comment, it is possible to trigger an XSS in database structure 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 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.6) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.2.6 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Frans Rosén of detectify for reporting this vulnerability.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2014-4954
Patches
The following commits have been made to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.