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high 8.8

CVE-2018-19969 json

phpMyAdmin CSRF Vulnerability

published 2018-12-11 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-xwf2-53mc-r8hx , EUVD-2022-5870

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.8.4
  • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.8.4
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.9.1+dfsg1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19969

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.1-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 4.8.4-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-19969

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-19969 updated

phpMyAdmin: Multiple security issues fixed in 4.8.4

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
>=4.8, <4.8.4
>=4.7, <=4.7.6
4.8.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.