Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-5732

Detailed vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the partition-range implementation in templates/table/structure/display_partitions.phtml in the table-structure page in phpMyAdmin 4.6.x before 4.6.3 when processing crafted table parameters. 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.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-5732

Sources

• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0815af37f483f329f0c0565d68821fea9c47b5f5
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/792cd1262f012b9b13639519d414f2acaeb5e972
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-32
• https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2016-25/