CVE-2008-3197

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.7.1 allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via a link or IMG tag to (1) the db parameter in the "Creating a Database" functionality (db_create.php), and (2) the convcharset and collation_connection parameters related to an unspecified program that modifies the connection character set.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4 (+128)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31097
http://secunia.com/advisories/31115
http://secunia.com/advisories/33822
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=613660
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1641
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:202
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/6
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php?relnotes=0
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2008-5
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2116/references
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/XSRF_ConvertCharset_inPhpMyAdmin2.11.7.pdf

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