Self-XSS due to unescaped HTML output in database triggers page.

PMASA-2014-5

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2014-5

Date: 2014-07-17

Summary

Self-XSS due to unescaped HTML output in database triggers page.

Description

When navigating into the database triggers page, it is possible to trigger an XSS with a crafted trigger name.

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 page.

Affected Versions

Versions 4.0.x (prior to 4.0.10.1), 4.1.x (prior to 4.1.14.2) and 4.2.x (prior to 4.2.6) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.1 or newer, or 4.1.14.2 or newer, or 4.2.6 or newer, or apply the patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Frans Rosén of detectify for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2014-4955

CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

• 10014d4dc596b9e3a491bf04f3e708cf1887d5e1

The following commits have been made on the 4.0 branch to fix this issue:

• 1b5592435617fa1b9dd68e2dc263de64c69fdc8a

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

• 511c596b175889b8e6b9c423e352ca64fa20af2b

More information

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