FKIE_CVE-2008-3457
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-08-04 19:41 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:55
Severity
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted setup arguments. NOTE: this issue can only be exploited in limited scenarios in which the attacker must be able to modify config/config.inc.php.
References
Impacted products
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