Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2014-5274
Published: August 22, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32499
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5274
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 view operations page in phpMyAdmin 4.1.x before 4.1.14.3 and 4.2.x before 4.2.7.1. A remote authenticated 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
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin
Fedora
phpmyadmin (Alpine package)
phpMyAdmin
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2014-5274
Update to version 4.1.14.3.
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.1.14.3
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.2.8-r0
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.0.10.2-1.el6
phpmyadmin (Alpine package) - update to 4.2.8-r0
phpMyAdmin - update to 4.0.10.2-1.el6