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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2018-15605 json

phpMyAdmin Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in the import dialog

published 2018-08-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-c958-4j9x-q7w4 , EUVD-2022-3544

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.3. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been found where an attacker can use a crafted file to manipulate an authenticated user who loads that file through the import feature.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin 4.8.3
  • phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 4.8.3
  • phpMyAdmin openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.1-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11171-1

  • phpmyadmin Alpine 3.8 4.8.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-15605

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-2018-15605 updated cvss 8.3

phpMyAdmin: XSS in the import dialog

  • 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

1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% 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
<4.8.3
4.8.3

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.