Ravens PHP Scripts - phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting and Unspecified Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA23702

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/23702/

CRITICAL: Less critical

IMPACT: Unknown, Cross Site Scripting

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

DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, some of which have unknown impacts, while some can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.9.1.1. Other versions may also be affected.

1) Input 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.

2) Some vulnerabilities exist, which are caused due to unspecified errors in phpMyAdmin. No further information is currently available.

SOLUTION: Fixed in version 2.9.2-rc1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0