Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2014-5273

Vulnerability details

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.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2014-5273

External 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

Related Security Bulletins

• Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin
• Cross-site scripting in phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
• Fedora EPEL 6 update for phpMyAdmin
• Fedora EPEL 5 update for phpMyAdmin4