CVE-2008-3457

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted setup arguments. NOTE: this issue can only be exploited in limited scenarios in which the attacker must be able to modify config/config.inc.php.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: through 2.11.7.0; 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4 (+35)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31263
http://secunia.com/advisories/31312
http://secunia.com/advisories/32834
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1641
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:202
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30420
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2226/references
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSS_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44052
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg01239.html

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