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CVE-2007-5977 (GCVE-0-2007-5977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-15 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
VLAI
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in db_create.php in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.2.1 allows remote authenticated users with CREATE DATABASE privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a hex-encoded IMG element in the db parameter in a POST request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6942.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2007-11-11 00:00
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