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phpMyAdmin XSS Vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 25, 2023

Package

composer phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (Composer)

Affected versions

< 4.8.2

Patched versions

4.8.2

Description

An issue was discovered in js/designer/move.js in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.2. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been found where an attacker can use a crafted database name to trigger an XSS attack when that database is referenced from the Designer feature.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 21, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Reviewed Jul 25, 2023
Last updated Jul 25, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-12581

GHSA ID

GHSA-vxj6-pm6r-23hq

Source code

No known source code
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