Self-XSS due to unescaped HTML output in navigation items hiding feature.

PMASA-2014-3

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2014-3

Date: 2014-06-20

Summary

Self-XSS due to unescaped HTML output in navigation items hiding feature.

Description

When hiding or unhiding a crafted table name in the navigation, it is possible to trigger an XSS.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be non critical.

Mitigation factor

This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who is logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from accessing the required form.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.1.x (prior to 4.1.14.1) and 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.4) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.1.14.1 or newer, or 4.2.4 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Chirayu Chiripal for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2014-4349

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• d4f754c937f9e2c0beadff5b2e38215dde1d6a79

The following commits have been made on the 4.1 branch to fix this issue:

• daa98d0c7ed24b529dc5df0d5905873acd0b00be

More information

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