CVE-2007-5728

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpPgAdmin 3.5 to 4.1.1, and possibly 4.1.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain input available in PHP_SELF in (1) redirect.php, possibly related to (2) login.php, different vectors than CVE-2007-2865.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-30090 webapps php verified text · 1 KB
Michal Majchrowicz · 2007-05-25

phpPgAdmin 4.1.1 - 'Redirect.php' Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24182/info

phpPgAdmin is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Exploiting this vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks on unsuspecting users in the context of the affected website. As a result, the attacker may be able to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks. 

http://www.example.com/redirect.php/%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22XSS%22)%3C/script%3E?subject=server&server=test 

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.1.3-0.1
sid Fixed 4.1.3-0.1
forky Fixed 4.1.3-0.1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.