phpMyAdmin multiple script insertion vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks, according to Secunia.

1. Certain input passed to row content after inline editing and saving is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

2. Certain input passed to table, column, and index names is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 3.4.0 through 3.4.4.

Solution: Update to version 3.4.5.