🛡️ CVE-2020-5504 — phpmyadmin

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

phpMyAdmin SQL injection in user accounts page

In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A malicious user could inject custom SQL in place of their own username when creating queries to this page. An attacker must have a valid MySQL account to access the server.

Affected software

CVE-2020-5504 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • phpmyadmin
  • phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (from 5.0.0 up to 5.0.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 17 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

lists.opensuse.org (Web)
cybersecurityworks.com (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
www.phpmyadmin.net (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phpmyadmin — —
phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 5.0.0 5.0.1

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