Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in libraries/auth/cookie.auth.lib.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.2.2, when logins are authenticated with the cookie auth_type, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the convcharset parameter to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0992.
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 ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | phpmyadmin | 4:2.11.2.2-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | phpmyadmin | 4:2.11.2.2-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | phpmyadmin | 4:2.11.2.2-1 | — |
References
- ADV-2007-3943 vdb-entry
- phpmyadmin-loginpage-xss(38601) vdb-entry
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-8
- 27748 third-party-advisory
- 26513 vdb-entry
- SUSE-SR:2008:006 vendor-advisory
- http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/pub/NDSA20071119.txt.asc
- 29323 third-party-advisory