Upstream information
Description
Stored cross-site scripting in pgAdmin 4's error-rendering and plan-node-rendering paths. Text returned by a PostgreSQL server (ErrorResponse messages, including object names quoted back inside relation-does-not-exist errors and inside EXPLAIN Recheck Cond / Exact Heap Blocks fields) was passed verbatim through html-react-parser at every user-facing sink - the notifier toasts, FormFooterMessage / FormInput help and error areas, FormNote, ModalProvider AlertContent and confirmDelete, ToolErrorView, the Explain visualiser's NodeText panel, the SQL editor confirm dialogs, ConfirmSaveContent, PreferencesHelper modal alerts, and SelectThemes helper text. A PostgreSQL server an attacker controls - or any server returning attacker-influenced text such as a table or column name a low-privilege database user can create - could inject arbitrary HTML (including <iframe>) into the pgAdmin DOM the moment the victim's pgAdmin connected to that server or viewed an Explain plan that referenced the crafted object.The injected iframe's srcdoc could fetch attacker-served JavaScript and, by writing to parent.location, redirect the victim's top-level pgAdmin browser tab to an attacker-controlled URL. Because the injection originates from inside pgAdmin's own interface, standard anti-clickjacking controls (X-Frame-Options, Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors) do not mitigate it. A phishing page rendered inside the legitimate pgAdmin window is indistinguishable from a genuine pgAdmin dialog.
Fix combines three complementary layers. (1) DOMPurify sanitisation is wrapped around every html-react-parser call site reachable from notifier, alert, form-error, Explain, and SQL-editor flows. (2) A new plain-text rendering contract - SafeMessage / SafeHtmlMessage components plus Notifier.errorText / alertText / warningText / infoText / successText helpers - is introduced; around fifty callers across browser, tools, dashboard, debugger, misc, llm, preferences, schema diff, and the SQL editor that previously interpolated backend-derived strings are migrated to the plain-text variants. (3) Backend HTML-escape is applied at the post-connection-SQL handler (execute_post_connection_sql) via a new sanitize_external_text helper, so third-party JSON consumers (audit logs, API clients) never receive raw markup either; the Explain plan-info renderer is also patched to _.escape Recheck Cond and Exact Heap Blocks at construction (matching every sibling field), giving defence in depth even before DOMPurify runs.
This issue affects pgAdmin 4: from 6.0 before 9.16.
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SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
| CVSS detail | CNA (PostgreSQL) | SUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 9.3 | 8 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | High |
| Privileges Required | None | None |
| User Interaction | Required | Required |
| Scope | Changed | Changed |
| Confidentiality Impact | High | High |
| Integrity Impact | High | High |
| Availability Impact | None | None |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| CVSS detail | CNA (PostgreSQL) | SUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 9.3 | 8.7 |
| Vector | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | High |
| Attack Requirements | None | None |
| Privileges Required | None | None |
| User Interaction | Active | Active |
| Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact | High | High |
| Vulnerable System Integrity Impact | High | High |
| Vulnerable System Availability Impact | None | None |
| Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact | High | High |
| Subsequent System Integrity Impact | High | High |
| Subsequent System Availability Impact | None | None |
| CVSSv4 Version | 4.0 | 4.0 |
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP7 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python 3 15 SP6 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | pgadmin4 | Not affected |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Jun 19 04:01:23 2026CVE page last modified: Fri Jun 19 13:28:47 2026