Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-1879 - Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in PHPmyadmin

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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(72527);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/12/19 13:21:18");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-1879");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : phpMyAdmin -- Self-XSS due to unescaped HTML output in import. (0871d18b-9638-11e3-a371-6805ca0b3d42)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The phpMyAdmin development team reports :

When importing a file with crafted filename, it is possible to trigger
an XSS. We consider this vulnerability to be non critical."
  );
  # http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2014-1.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2014-1/"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/0871d18b-9638-11e3-a371-6805ca0b3d42.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?77d2f84d"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:phpMyAdmin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/02/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/02/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/02/17");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"phpMyAdmin>=3.3.1<4.1.7")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");