TITLE:
phpMyAdmin Local File Inclusion and Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17289

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17289/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

1) Input passed to certain configuration parameters in some scripts
isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can
be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

2) Some unspecified input passed to "left.php", "queryframe.php", and
"server_databases.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 an affected
site.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.6.4-pl2 and
prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.4-pl3 or later.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Stefan Esser, Hardened-PHP Project
2) Tobias Klein

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Hardened-PHP Project:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_162005.73.html

phpMyAdmin:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2005-5

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