| Name | CVE-2008-3457 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1641-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| phpmyadmin (PTS) | bullseye | 4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4:5.2.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4:5.2.2-really5.2.2+20241130+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
if an attacker can write arbitrary content to config/config.php you have way more problems than this XSS
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2008-6/
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/6a5e53c31bcbcadcb5d16cffaa3b9af181b26296 (2.11 branch)
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/0bfb27fb0538f43e9c49b6a183b767c2bed1524d