Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_linkOrButton function in libraries/common.lib.php in the database (db) search script in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.11.1 and 3.x before 3.3.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted request.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2010-4329     Cross site scripting was possible in search, that     allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script     or HTML.

  - CVE-2010-4480     Cross site scripting was possible in errors, that     allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script     or HTML.

  - CVE-2010-4481     Display of PHP's phpinfo() function was available to     world, but only if this functionality had been enabled     (defaults to off). This may leak some information about     the host system.

Changes for 3.3.8.1 (2010-11-29)

  - [security] XSS on db search, see PMASA-2010-8

    -       http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-201       0-8.php

    - CVE-2010-4329

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Versions of phpMyAdmin 2.x prior to 2.11.11.1, or 3.x prior to 3.3.8.1 are potentially affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the database search tool.

phpMyAdmin team reports :

It was possible to conduct a XSS attack using spoofed request on the db search script.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
51401	Debian DSA-2139-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
51082	Fedora 13 : phpMyAdmin-3.3.8.1-1.fc13 (2010-18371)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
51081	Fedora 14 : phpMyAdmin-3.3.8.1-1.fc14 (2010-18343)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
5716	phpMyAdmin 2.x < 2.11.11.1 / 3.x < 3.3.8.1 XSS	Nessus Network Monitor	CGI	medium
50838	FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- XSS attack in database search (753f8185-5ba9-42a4-be02-3f55ee580093)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-4329

medium

Tenable Plugins

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medium

medium

medium

medium