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>> phpMyAdmin "comment" Parameter Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Title : phpMyAdmin "comment" Parameter Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4572
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6942 - CVE-2006-6944
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-17

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in phpMyAdmin, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code or bypass security restrictions.

The first issue is due to input validation errors in various scripts (e.g. "db_operations.php") that do not validate the "comment" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site [...]

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4572
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-7
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-9
http://s-a-p.ca/index.php?page=OurAdvisories&id=37

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Laurent Gaffié and Benjamin Mossé

ChangeLog

2006-11-17 : Initial release
2006-11-20 : Updated Solution

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