Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2018-15605
Published: August 22, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14494
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15605
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data via the file import feature. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim to upload it 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.
Affected software
phpMyAdmin
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Fedora
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2018-15605
Update to version 4.8.3.
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.8.3
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.8.3-r0
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.8.3-1.fc28
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.8.3-r0
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.8.3-1.fc28