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CVE-2008-3457

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted setup arguments. NOTE: this issue can only be exploited in limited scenarios in which the attacker must be able to modify config/config.inc.php.

LOW · CVSS 2.6 EPSS 0.00586
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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Affected Products & Versions

2
phpmyadmin<= 2.11.7.0
phpmyadminall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocyehg.net · XSS_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdfyehg.net
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Scoring & Timeline

2.6
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD04 Aug 2008 · 07:41 PM
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References & Sources

12
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31263Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31312
http://secunia.com/advisories/32834
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1641
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:202
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