error.php in PhpMyAdmin 3.3.8.1, and other versions before 3.4.0-beta1, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted BBcode tag containing "@" characters, as demonstrated using "[a@url@page]".

Changes for 3.3.10.0 (2011-03-19)

  - [structure] Aria table size printed as unknown, thanks     to erickoh75 - erickoh75

    - [structure] Ordering by size gives incorrect results,       thanks to Madhura Jayaratne - madhuracj

    - [core] 0 row(s) affected

    - [core] Edit relational page and page number

    - [security] Minor security fixes, see PMASA-2010-9 and       PMASA-2010-10

    - [lang] German update, thanks to jannicars at       users.sourceforge.net.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of phpMyAdmin fails to validate BBcode tags in user input to the 'error' parameter of the 'error.php' script before using it to generate dynamic HTML.

An attacker may be able to leverage this issue to inject arbitrary HTML or script code into a user's browser to be executed within the security context of the affected site.  For example, this could be used to cause a page with arbitrary text and a link to an external site to be displayed.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2010-4329     Cross site scripting was possible in search, that     allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script     or HTML.

  - CVE-2010-4480     Cross site scripting was possible in errors, that     allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script     or HTML.

  - CVE-2010-4481     Display of PHP's phpinfo() function was available to     world, but only if this functionality had been enabled     (defaults to off). This may leak some information about     the host system.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
53214	Fedora 14 : phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-1.fc14 (2011-3737)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
53213	Fedora 13 : phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-1.fc13 (2011-3733)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
52984	Fedora 15 : phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-1.fc15 (2011-3761)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
51425	phpMyAdmin error.php BBcode Tag XSS (PMASA-2010-9)	Nessus	CGI abuses : XSS	medium
51401	Debian DSA-2139-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-4480

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium