phpMyAdmin Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-2507 - Vulnerability Database

phpMyAdmin Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2011-2507

Medium
Reference: CVE-2011-2507
Title: phpMyAdmin Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability
Overview:

libraries/server_synchronize.lib.php in the Synchronize implementation in phpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.2 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.1 does not properly quote regular expressions which allows remote authenticated users to inject a PCRE e (aka PREG_REPLACE_EVAL) modifier and consequently execute arbitrary PHP code by leveraging the ability to modify the SESSION superglobal array.