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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-12616 json

phpMyAdmin CSRF Vulnerability

published 2019-06-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-mfr9-pcm3-6mwc , EUVD-2022-4554

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
20.2%
EPSS 20.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.9.0
  • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.9.0
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:4.9.1+dfsg1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12616

  • 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-2019-12616

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
  • phpMyAdmin Package Hub 15 SP1 4.9.0.1-bp151.3.3.1
  • phpMyAdmin Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12, openSUSE Leap 15.1 +1 more 4.9.0.1-bp150.31.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1861-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1689-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +12 more 4.9.0.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-12616

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-2019-12616 updated cvss 5.4

phpmyadmin: broken tag provided by attacker and pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database can cause CSRF through the victim

  • 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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-46982)

Exploit prediction

20.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-46982 phpMyAdmin 4.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery webapps, 2019-06-11

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
<4.9.0
4.9.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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