PMASA-2016-17
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-17
Date: 2016-06-23
Summary
BBCode injection vulnerability
Description
A vulnerability was discovered that allows an BBCode injection to setup script in case it's not accessed on https.
Severity
We consider this to be non-critical.
Mitigation factor
Always use https to access phpMyAdmin.
Affected Versions
Version 4.6.x (prior to 4.6.3), 4.4.15.x (prior to 4.4.15.7), and 4.0.10.x (prior to 4.0.10.16) are affected
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3, 4.4.15.7, or 4.0.10.16 or newer, or apply patch listed below.
References
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting these vulnerabilities.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-5701
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.