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Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin Libraries and Themes

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Detects cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin Libraries and Themes

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains a PHP application that is affected by
cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Description :

The installed version of phpMyAdmin suffers from multiple cross-site
scripting vulnerabilities due to its failure to sanitize user input in
several PHP scripts used as libraries and themes. A remote attacker
may use these issues to cause arbitrary code to be executed in a
user's browser, to steal authentication cookies and the like.

See also :

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110929725801154&w=2
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-1

Solution :

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 pl2 or later and disable PHP's
'register_globals' setting.

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:P/A:N/I:N/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 12644

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