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phpmyadmin — security advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.
- Products
- phpmyadmin
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4:2.9.0.3-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-5718
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in error.php in phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 through 2.9.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via UTF-7 or US-ASCII encoded characters, which are injected into an error message, as demonstrated by a request with a utf7 charset parameter accompanied by UTF-7 data.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5718
phpmyadmin
Fixed versions: 4:2.9.0.3-1
phpmyadmin
Fixed versions: 4:2.9.0.3-1
phpmyadmin
Fixed versions: 4:2.9.0.3-1
Complete source record
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