CVE-2008-5621

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

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.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 2.11.0, 2.11.0.0, 2.11.1, 2.11.1.0, 2.11.1.1, 2.11.1.2 (+21)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/50894
http://secunia.com/advisories/33076
http://secunia.com/advisories/33146
http://secunia.com/advisories/33246
http://secunia.com/advisories/33822
http://secunia.com/advisories/33912
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-32.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4753
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20081222-1/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1723
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/12/1

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