SB2014100301 - Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin

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SB2014100301 - Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin

Published: October 3, 2014 Updated: July 28, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2014100301
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7217)

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 a crafted ENUM value that is improperly handled during rendering of the (1) table search or (2) table structure page, related to libraries/TableSearch.class.php and libraries/Util.class.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