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Vigil@nce - phpMyAdmin: Cross Site Scripting of Create View
June 2013 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting in Create View page
of phpMyAdmin, in order to execute JavaScript code in the context
of the web site.
Impacted products: phpMyAdmin
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 05/06/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The view_create.php page of phpMyAdmin allows an authenticated
user to create a view.
However, it does not filter received data with htmlspecialchars(),
before inserting them in generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting in Create
View page of phpMyAdmin, in order to execute JavaScript code in
the context of the web site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/phpMyAdmin-Cross-Site-Scripting-of-Create-View-12915
