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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2022-23808 json

Cross-site Scripting in phpmyadmin

published 2022-01-22 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-phpmyadmin-2022-23808 , EUVD-2022-0704 , GHSA-vcwc-6mr9-8m7c

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.9%
EPSS 7.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 5.1 before 5.1.2. An attacker can inject malicious code into aspects of the setup script, which can allow XSS or HTML injection.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 5.1.2
  • bitnami phpmyadmin 5.1.2
  • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 5.1.2
  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:5.1.3+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23808

  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.2-1.1
  • phpMyAdmin Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.2.1-bp154.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11765-1openSUSE-SU-2023:0047-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +7 more 5.1.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-23808

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-2022-23808 updated cvss 6.1

phpMyAdmin: multiple XSS and HTML injection attacks in setup script

  • 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

cisa ICSA-26-027-02 updated cvss 6.1

Festo Didactic SE MES PC

  • Festo Didactic SE MES PC shipped_with_Windows_10
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

7.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template phpMyAdmin < 5.1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting nuclei detection template

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/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
OSV 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/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
>=5.1.0, <5.1.2
5.1.2
bitnami phpmyadmin
>=5.1.0, <5.1.2
5.1.2

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns 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.