A vulnerability was found in phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.2/2.8.0.3/2.8.1 Dev/2.9.0 Dev (Database Administration Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument lang with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.3, 2.8.0.2, 2.8.1-dev, and 2.9.0-dev allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the lang parameter.

The weakness was published 04/25/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at secunia.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-2031 since 04/25/2006. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (25954). Similar entries are available at 2173, 2235, 2234 and 30271.

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• Database Administration Software

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• phpMyAdmin

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• 2.8.0.2
• 2.8.0.3
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• 2.9.0 Dev

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• open-source

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