CVE-2006-6942

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PhpMyAdmin before 2.9.1.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) a comment for a table name, as exploited through (a) db_operations.php, (2) the db parameter to (b) db_create.php, (3) the newname parameter to db_operations.php, the (4) query_history_latest, (5) query_history_latest_db, and (6) querydisplay_tab parameters to (c) querywindow.php, and (7) the pos parameter to (d) sql.php.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
phpMyAdmin: through 2.9.1; 2.9.0, 2.9.0.1, 2.9.0.2, 2.9.0.3, 2.9.0_beta1, 2.9.0_rc1 (+2)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=116370414309444&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/26733
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21137
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1370
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4572
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30310
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=116370414309444&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/26733
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21137
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1370

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