CVE-2014-6300

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the micro history implementation in phpMyAdmin 4.0.x before 4.0.10.3, 4.1.x before 4.1.14.4, and 4.2.x before 4.2.8.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and consequently conduct a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack to create a root account, via a crafted URL, related to js/ajax.js.

Affected products

Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
phpMyAdmin: 4.0.0, 4.0.0-rc2, 4.0.0-rc3, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 (+36)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00032.html
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-10.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69790
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/33b39f9f1dd9a4d27856530e5ac004e23b30e8ac
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00032.html
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-10.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69790
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/33b39f9f1dd9a4d27856530e5ac004e23b30e8ac
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-03

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