Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2018-19970
Published: December 12, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16500
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-2018-19970
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. 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.
Affected software
phpMyAdmin
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
Ubuntu
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpmyadmin (Ubuntu package)
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
Ubuntu
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpmyadmin (Ubuntu package)
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
How to mitigate CVE-2018-19970
Update to version 4.8.4.
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.8.4
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.8.4-r0
phpmyadmin (Ubuntu package) - update to 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.8.4-r0
phpmyadmin (Ubuntu package) - update to 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5