phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1 releases: fix CSRF & SQLi vulnerability
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP that is intended to handle the administration of a MySQL or MariaDB database server. You can use phpMyAdmin to perform most administration tasks, including creating a database, running queries, and adding user accounts.
phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1 was released to fix two security flaws. The security vulnerabilities are below:
- PMASA-2019-3 is an SQL injection flaw in the Designer feature
- PMASA-2019-4 is a CSRF attack that’s possible through the ‘cookie’ login form
This release also includes fixes for many bugs, including:
- Several issues with SYSTEM VERSIONING tables
- Fixed json encode error in export
- Fixed JavaScript events not activating on input (sql bookmark issue)
- Show Designer combo boxes when adding a constraint
- Fix edit view
- Fixed invalid default value for bit field
- Fix several errors relating to GIS data types
- Fixed javascript error PMA_messages is not defined
- Fixed import XML data with leading zeros
- Fixed php notice, added support for ‘DELETE HISTORY’ table privilege (MariaDB >= 10.3.4)
- Fixed MySQL 8.0.0 issues with GIS display
- Fixed “Server charset” in “Database server” tab showing wrong information
- Fixed can not copy user on Percona Server 5.7
- Updated sql-parser to version 4.3.2, which fixes several parsing and linting problems
