Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2014-8960
Published: November 30, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41045
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-2014-8960
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 libraries/error_report.lib.php in the error-reporting feature in phpMyAdmin 4.1.x before 4.1.14.7 and 4.2.x before 4.2.12. 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
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
phpMyAdmin
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
phpMyAdmin
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8960
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.2.12-1.el7, 4.2.12-1.fc21
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00017.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:228
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-15.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71244
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/9364e2eee5681681caf7205c0933bc18af11e233
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03