BBCode injection vulnerability

PMASA-2016-67

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-67

Date: 2016-11-25

Updated: 2016-12-06

Summary

BBCode injection vulnerability

Description

With a crafted login request it is possible to inject BBCode in the login page.

Severity

We consider this vulnerability to be severe.

Mitigation factor

This exploit requires phpMyAdmin to be configured with the “cookie” auth_type; other authentication methods are not affected.

Affected Versions

All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.5) are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.5 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2016-9862

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

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

• 733a5d5

More information

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