Cross-site scripting in phpMyAdmin and Opensuse - CVE-2014-8326
Published: November 5, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
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 a crafted (1) database name or (2) table name, related to the libraries/DatabaseInterface.class.php code for SQL debug output and the js/server_status_monitor.js code for the server monitor 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
Opensuse
Fedora
phpMyAdmin4
phpMyAdmin
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8326
phpMyAdmin - addressed in versions 4.0.10.5-1.el6, 4.2.10.1-1.el7, 4.2.10.1-1.fc21
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00004.html
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-12.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70731
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/7b8962dede7631298c81e2c1cd267b81f1e08a8c
- https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/bd68c54d1beeef79d237e8bfda44690834012a76