Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package phpmyadmin  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-PHPMYADMIN-669923
  • published8 Nov 2014
  • disclosed8 Nov 2014

Introduced: 8 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-6300  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream phpmyadmin package and not the phpmyadmin package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.