[SA19556] phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

TITLE:
phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19556

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19556/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpMyAdmin 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1720/
phpMyAdmin 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1719/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Some input passed to various scripts in the themes directory isn't
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.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.8.0.3.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23067

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Toni Koivunen/CERT-FI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-1

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