Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2014-6300
Published: November 8, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32488
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-6300
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the micro history implementation in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.3, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.4, and 4.2.x before 4.2.8.1. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security 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
Fedora
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin4
phpMyAdmin
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin4
phpMyAdmin
How to mitigate CVE-2014-6300
Update to version 4.0.10.3.
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.0.10.3
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.10.4-r0
phpMyAdmin4 - update to 4.0.10.3-2.el5
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.0.10.3-2.el6, 4.2.8.1-2.el7, 4.2.8.1-2.fc21
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.10.4-r0
phpMyAdmin4 - update to 4.0.10.3-2.el5
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.0.10.3-2.el6, 4.2.8.1-2.el7, 4.2.8.1-2.fc21