SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA22599

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/22599/

CRITICAL: Less critical

IMPACT: Cross Site Scripting

WHERE: >From remote

SOFTWARE: phpMyAdmin 2.x - http://secunia.com/product/1720/

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input containing UTF-7 encoded characters passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. The vulnerability is reported in versions 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2.

SOLUTION: Update to version 2.9.0.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: The vendor credits Stefan Esser.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6