phpMyAdmin Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

[pkelly]

http://secunia.com/advisories/18113/

Description:
lwang has discovered a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing users to perform certain actions via HTTP GET requests without performing any validity checks to verify the user's request. This can e.g. be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code via the "checkprivs" or "hostname" parameter passed to "server_privileges.php".

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.7.0-pl1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted web sites while being logged in to the management interface of phpMyAdmin.