SB2014082201 - Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin
Published: August 22, 2014 Updated: July 28, 2020
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5273)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via the (1) browse table page, related to js/sql.js; (2) ENUM editor page, related to js/functions.js; (3) monitor page, related to js/server_status_monitor.js; (4) query charts page, related to js/tbl_chart.js; or (5) table relations page, related to libraries/tbl_relation.lib.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00045.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60397
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-8.php
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/2c45d7caa614afd71dbe3d0f7270f51ce5569614
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/3ffc967fb60cf2910cc2f571017e977558c67821
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/647c9d12e33a6b64e1c3ff7487f72696bdf2dccb
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/90ddeecf60fc029608b972e490b735f3a65ed0cb
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/cd9f302bf7f91a160fe7080f9a612019ef847f1c