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PMASA-2020-5

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2020-5

Date: 2020-10-10

Summary

XSS relating to the transformation feature

Description

A vulnerability was discovered where an attacker can cause an XSS attack through the transformation feature.

If an attacker sends a crafted link to the victim with the malicious JavaScript, when the victim clicks on the link, the JavaScript will run and complete the instructions made by the attacker.

Severity

We consider this flaw to be of moderate severity.

Affected Versions

phpMyAdmin 4.9.x releases prior to 4.9.6 and the 5.0.x releases prior to 5.0.3 are affected. We believe the flaw was introduced with phpMyAdmin 2.5.0.

Solution

Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.9.6 or 5.0.3 or newer or apply patch listed below.

References

Thanks to Giwan Go, Yelang Lee of STEALIEN for reporting this vulnerability.

Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2020-26934

CWE ids: CWE-661

Patches

The following commits have been made to fix this issue:

More information

For further information and in case of questions, please contact the phpMyAdmin team. Our website is phpmyadmin.net.

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