TITLE:
phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18113

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18113/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Hijacking, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
lwang has discovered a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing users to
perform certain actions via HTTP GET requests without performing any
validity checks to verify the user's request. This can e.g. be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code
via the "checkprivs" or "hostname" parameter passed to
"server_privileges.php".

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.7.0-pl1. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not browse untrusted web sites while being logged in to the
management interface of phpMyAdmin.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
lwang

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