Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-6607

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

XSS issues were discovered in phpMyAdmin. This affects Zoom search (specially crafted column content can be used to trigger an XSS attack); GIS editor (certain fields in the graphical GIS editor are not properly escaped and can be used to trigger an XSS attack); Relation view; the following Transformations: Formatted, Imagelink, JPEG: Upload, RegexValidation, JPEG inline, PNG inline, and transformation wrapper; XML export; MediaWiki export; Designer; When the MySQL server is running with a specially-crafted log_bin directive; Database tab; Replication feature; and Database search. All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6607

Sources

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93257
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-30