CVE-2006-5718

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 2.6.4_pl1, 2.6.4_pl3, 2.6.4_pl4, 2.6.4_rc1, 2.7, 2.7.0_beta1 (+9)

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22599
http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_122006.137.html
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-6
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450397/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20856
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4298
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29957
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22599
http://secunia.com/advisories/23086

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