Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.6.4-pl3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain arguments to (1) left.php, (2) queryframe.php, or (3) server_databases.php.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- phpMyAdmin 2.x - 'queryframe.php' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-26392 · webapps · May 20, 2005 · verified
- phpMyAdmin 2.x - 'server_databases.php' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-26393 · webapps · May 20, 2005 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
Advisories 1
- DSA-880-1 phpmyadmin - several Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
References
- SUSE-SR:2005:028 vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2005:066 vendor-advisory
- 17607 third-party-advisory
- 17559 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2005-2179 vdb-entry
- DSA-880 vendor-advisory
- 17337 third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200510-21 vendor-advisory
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-5
- 15196 vdb-entry