PMASA-2016-16
Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-16
Date: 2016-05-25
Updated: 2016-05-26
Summary
Self XSS
Description
A specially crafted attack could allow for special HTML characters to be passed as URL encoded values and displayed back as special characters in the page.
Updated to include CVE ID.
Severity
We consider this to be non-critical.
Affected Versions
Versions 4.4.x (prior to 4.4.15.6) and 4.6.x (prior to 4.6.2) are affected.
Solution
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.4.15.6 or 4.6.2 or newer or apply patch listed below.
References
This issue was found thanks to Mozilla SOS program.
Assigned CVE IDs: CVE-2016-5099
CWE IDs: CWE-661
Patches
The following commits have been made on the 4.6 branch to fix this issue:
The following commits have been made on the 4.4 branch to fix this issue:
More information
For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin security team at security@phpmyadmin.net.