Vigil@nce - phpMyAdmin: Cross Site Scripting of debug and monitor functions
October 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting in
DatabaseInterface.class.php and server_status_monitor.js of
phpMyAdmin, in order to execute JavaScript code in the context of
the web site.
Impacted products: MBS, phpMyAdmin
Severity: 1/4
Creation date: 22/10/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The phpMyAdmin product is a web application.
However, it does not escape received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting in
DatabaseInterface.class.php and server_status_monitor.js of
phpMyAdmin, in order to execute JavaScript code in the context of
the web site.
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