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medium 6.0

CVE-2008-5621 json

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.4 and 3.x before 3.1.1.0 allows remote attackers to perf…

published 2008-12-17 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5595

cvss
6.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.4 and 3.x before 3.1.1.0 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via a link or IMG tag to tbl_structure.php with a modified table parameter. NOTE: other unspecified pages are also reachable, but they have the same root cause. NOTE: this can be leveraged to conduct SQL injection attacks and execute arbitrary code.

Patch / fix

  • phpmyadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:2.11.8.1-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5621

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-2008-5621 updated

phpMyAdmin: SQL injection through XSRF on several pages (PMASA-2008-10)

  • 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. First public exploit (EDB-7382)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-7382 phpMyAdmin 3.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery / SQL Injection webapps, 2008-12-08

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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