PMASA-2013-6 Announcement-ID: PMASA-2013-6 Date: 2013-06-05 Summary XSS due to unescaped HTML output in Create View page. Description When creating a view with a crafted name and an incorrect CREATE statement, it is possible to trigger an XSS. Severity We consider this vulnerability to be non critical. Mitigation factor This vulnerability can be triggered only by someone who logged in to phpMyAdmin, as the usual token protection prevents non-logged-in users from accessing the required form. Affected Versions Versions 4.0.x are affected. Solution Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.0.3 or newer, or apply the patch listed below. References Thanks to Maxim Rupp for reporting this issue. Assigned CVE ids: CVE-2013-3742 CWE ids: CWE-661 CWE-79 view_create.php @@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ $response->addJSON( 'message', PMA_Message::error( - "<i>$sql_query</i><br /><br />" . PMA_DBI_getError() + "<i>" . htmlspecialchars($sql_query) . "</i><br /><br />" + . PMA_DBI_getError() ) ); $response->isSuccess(false);