From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 16:24:04 CDT

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TITLE:
phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31115

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31115/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpMyAdmin 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1720/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP
requests without performing any validity checks to verify the
request. This can be exploited to perform actions with the privileges
of a target user, who is tricked into visiting a malicious website.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.11.7.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.11.7.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits YGN Ethical Hacker Group.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=613660

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0

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