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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2018-19970 json

phpMyAdmin Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

published 2018-12-11 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8987-93fh-rcwq , EUVD-2022-3153

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4, an XSS vulnerability was found in the navigation tree, where an attacker can deliver a payload to a user through a crafted database/table name.

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-2018-19970

  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4:4.6.6-5ubuntu0.5
  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4:4.0.10-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
  • phpmyadmin Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 4:4.5.4.1-2ubuntu2.1+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19970

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • 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-2018-19970

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-2018-19970 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

2.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
>=4.0, <4.8.4
4.8.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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