CVE-2006-6943

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

PhpMyAdmin before 2.9.1.1 allows remote attackers to obtain the full server path via direct requests to (a) scripts/check_lang.php and (b) themes/darkblue_orange/layout.inc.php; and via the (1) lang[], (2) target[], (3) db[], (4) goto[], (5) table[], and (6) tbl_group[] array arguments to (c) index.php, and the (7) back[] argument to (d) sql.php; and an invalid (8) sort_by parameter to (e) server_databases.php and (9) db parameter to (f) db_printview.php.

Affected products

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://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21137
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=116370414309444&w=2
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21137

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