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Congratulations, phpMyAdmin! And I bet sys admins are loving you even more!

Jul 31, 2008 by Mircea GoiacloseAuthor: Mircea Goia Name: Mircea Goia
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phpMyAdmin, the MySQL web based administration tool, won two category awards at 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards!
It was close to win the hearts of the developers too, but in the end it was only a finalist (Notepad++ took the cake).

The categories in which this web software won are:
* Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition (wow! Well, why not after all? I’m wondering who would buy it though…)
* Best Tool or Utility for Sys Admins (you deserve the love, that’s for sure! But be aware of the competition too… )

The team didn’t enjoyed too much the celebration and they are back to work with a new release: 2.11.8

This new phpMyAdmin release is a security release: a Cross Site Framing vulnerability was found by Aung Khant (member of YGN Ethical Hacker Group).
In the past it was permitted to display phpMyAdmin’s frames inside another page, opening potential phishing or fooling possibilities.
Now, a parameter “AllowThirdPartyFraming” must be set to TRUE in “config.inc.php” to allow this behavior.
Also, XSS (Cross Site Scripting) was possible for someone who could overwrite “config/config.inc.php” during the time this file is present in this directory.

The latest release, phpMyAdmin version 2.11.8.1, is identical with 2.11.8, except it includes a fix for a notice about “lang”.
Check out their security advisory.

About phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin  is a MySQL database web based administration tool written in PHP (GPL license distributed).
It is one of the most popular MySQL database administration tool in the world (if not THE most popular – no wonder it won the “Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition” category at 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards).
The tool is available in 55 languages, an impressive achievement by the community of the translators which really shows the popularity of this project.

See if phpMyAdmin is translated in your language here!

Grab the latest copy of phpMyAdmin here!

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