phpmyadmin < 2.6.2_rc1

have a lookie.

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Severity: Low
Title: phpMyAdmin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Date: April 11, 2005
Bugs: #87952
ID: 200504-08

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Synopsis
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phpMyAdmin is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack.

Background
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phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases from a web-browser.

Affected packages
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1 dev-db/phpmyadmin < 2.6.2_rc1 >= 2.6.2_rc1

Description
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Oriol Torrent Santiago has discovered that phpMyAdmin fails to validate input to the "convcharset" variable, rendering it vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.

Impact
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By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker can inject and execute malicious script code, potentially compromising the victim's browser.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All phpMyAdmin users should upgrade to the latest version: