Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.7.1 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via a link or IMG tag to (1) the db parameter in the "Creating a Database" functionality (db_create.php), and (2) the convcharset and collation_connection parameters related to an unspecified program that modifies the connection character set.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3197
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43846
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00590.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00652.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31097
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31115
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33822
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=613660
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1641
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:202
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/6
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0
• http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-5
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2116/references
• http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_ConvertCharset_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf
• http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_CreateDB_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf