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TITLE:
phpMyAdmin "convcharset" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14799

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14799/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Oriol Torrent Santiago has reported a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin,
allowing malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attack.

Input passed to the "convcharset" parameter in "index.php" 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 a vulnerable site.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 2.6.2-rc1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.2-rc1 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Oriol Torrent Santiago

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
phpMyAdmin:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-3

Oriol Torrent Santiago:
http://www.arrelnet.com/advisories/adv20050403.html

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