phpPgAdmin Functions Script Insertion Vulnerability

by Carol~ Moderator - 3/30/12 9:31 AM

In Reply to: VULNERABILITIES / FIXES - March 30, 2012 by Carol~ Moderator

Release Date : 2012-03-30

Criticality level : Less critical
Impact : Cross Site Scripting
Where : From remote
Solution Status : Vendor Patch

Software: phpPgAdmin 5.x

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpPgAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain unspecified input related to functions is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.0.3. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 5.0.4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Mateusz Goik.

Original Advisory:
phpPgAdmin:
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=37132
https://github.com/phppgadmin/phppgadmin/commit/74174ad639664b52cc1609ede0af8bc403e98a00

Mateusz Goik:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28783470

http://secunia.com/advisories/48574/