CVE-2007-5977

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in db_create.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.2.1 allows remote authenticated users with CREATE DATABASE privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a hex-encoded IMG element in the db parameter in a POST request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6942.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: through 2.11.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/27630
http://secunia.com/advisories/27753
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=553333
http://www.digitrustgroup.com/advisories/tdg-advisory071108a.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:229
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26512
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3824
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38404
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00777.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27630
http://secunia.com/advisories/27753

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