XSS due to unescaped HTML output in GIS visualisation page.

PMASA-2013-1

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2013-1

Date: 2013-04-18

Summary

XSS due to unescaped HTML output in GIS visualisation page.

Description

When modifying a URL parameter with a crafted value it is possible to trigger an XSS.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Mitigation factor

These XSS can only be triggered when a valid database is known and when a valid cookie token is used.

Affected Versions

Versions 3.5.x are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 3.5.8 or newer or apply the patches listed below.

References

Thanks to Janek Vind for reporting this issue.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2013-1937

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 79089c9bc02c82c15419fd9d6496b8781ae08a5a
• 7e9ac67cbb58b40fbe0c18401b8e7d033c9dfe28

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.