$ cve CVE-2006-6942 JSON

CVE-2006-6942 EXPLOIT

6.8

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 3.3% (pctl 88)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PhpMyAdmin before 2.9.1.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) a comment for a table name, as exploited through (a) db_operations.php, (2) the db parameter to (b) db_create.php, (3) the newname parameter to db_operations.php, the (4) query_history_latest, (5) query_history_latest_db, and (6) querydisplay_tab parameters to (c) querywindow.php, and (7) the pos parameter to (d) sql.php.

Scoring

CVSS	6.8 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS	3.3% — more likely to be exploited than 88% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2007-01-19
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
debian	debian linux
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	phpMyAdmin 2.x - 'db_create.php?db' Cross-Site Scripting	2006-09-15
exploit-db	phpMyAdmin 2.x - 'db_operations.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities	2006-09-15
exploit-db	phpMyAdmin 2.x - 'querywindow.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities	2006-09-15
exploit-db	phpMyAdmin 2.x - 'sql.php?pos' Cross-Site Scripting	2006-09-15

References

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