CVE-2008-3457

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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, 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, sid	4:5.2.1+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
phpmyadmin	source	etch	4:2.9.1.1-8		DSA-1641-1
phpmyadmin	source	(unstable)	4:2.11.8~rc1-1

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