XSS in partition range functionality

PMASA-2016-25

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-25

Date: 2016-06-23

Summary

XSS in partition range functionality

Description

A vulnerability was reported allowing a specially crafted table parameters to cause an XSS attack through the table structure page.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be severe.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.3) are affected

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.3 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l and Nils Juenemann @totally_unknown for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-5732

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:

• 0815af3
• 792cd12

More information

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