🛡️ CVE-2018-19969 — phpmyadmin

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-352 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

phpMyAdmin CSRF Vulnerability

phpMyAdmin 4.7.x and 4.8.x versions prior to 4.8.4 are affected by a series of CSRF flaws. By deceiving a user into clicking on a crafted URL, it is possible to perform harmful SQL operations such as renaming databases, creating new tables/routines, deleting designer pages, adding/deleting users, updating user passwords, killing SQL processes, etc.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-19969 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2018-19969 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (from 4.7)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 17 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
security.gentoo.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.phpmyadmin.net (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.7 —

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