Wednesday, 25 April 2007

Beware of the phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Secunia.com talks about a phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities.

The post says, some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the ‘fieldkey’ parameter in browse_foreigners.php and input passed to the ‘PMA_sanitize()’ function is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.10.1.

The solution is to update to version 2.10.1.