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FreeBSD phpmyadmin — Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Fix

An unpatched security hole in phpMyAdmin can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks under FreeBSD. This also applies to phpmyadmin version under other UNIX like oses.

Input passed via unspecified parameters to files in /libraries is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled and support for ".htaccess" files is disabled.

How do I fix this issue under FreeBSD?

Login as root user and type the following two commands:
# portsnap fetch extract
# portuprade -a

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