CVE-2006-5116

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.9.1-rc1 allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as another user by (1) directly setting a token in the URL though dynamic variable evaluation and (2) unsetting arbitrary variables via the _REQUEST array, related to (a) libraries/common.lib.php, (b) session.inc.php, and (c) url_generating.lib.php. NOTE: the PHP unset function vector is covered by CVE-2006-3017.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 2.8.0.1, 2.8.0.2, 2.8.0.3, 2.8.1, 2.8.1_dev, 2.8.3 (+2)

References

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-October/001067.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Nov/0010.html
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.9.1-rc1.tar.gz?download
http://secunia.com/advisories/22126
http://secunia.com/advisories/22781
http://secunia.com/advisories/23086
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1677
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1207
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_072006.130.html
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2006-5
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447491/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20253

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