CVE-2005-2869

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.6.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the Username to libraries/auth/cookie.auth.lib.php or (2) the error parameter to error.php.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+40)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/16605
http://secunia.com/advisories/17337
http://secunia.com/advisories/17559
http://secunia.com/advisories/17607
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1240880&group_id=23067&atid=377408
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1265740&group_id=23067&atid=377408
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-880
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_66_phpmyadmin.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/16605
http://secunia.com/advisories/17337
http://secunia.com/advisories/17559

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