Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-2561

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Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2016-2561

Published: March 1, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40433
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2561
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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 (1) normalization.php or (2) js/normalization.js in the database normalization page, (3) templates/database/structure/sortable_header.phtml in the database structure page, or (4) the pos parameter to db_central_columns.php in the central columns page. 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

phpMyAdmin
Fedora
php-udan11-sql-parser
phpMyAdmin4
phpMyAdmin

How to mitigate CVE-2016-2561

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

php-udan11-sql-parser - addressed in versions 3.4.0-1.fc22, 3.4.0-1.fc23
phpMyAdmin4 - update to 4.0.10.15-1.el5
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.0.10.15-1.el6, 4.4.15.5-1.el7, 4.5.5.1-1.fc22, 4.5.5.1-1.fc23

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