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CVE-2011-2506

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

setup/lib/ConfigGenerator.class.php in phpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.2 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.1 does not properly restrict the presence of comment closing delimiters, which allows remote attackers to conduct static code injection attacks by leveraging the ability to modify the SESSION superglobal array.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-rc1, 3.0.1, 3.0.1-rc1 (+42)

References

• http://ha.xxor.se/2011/07/phpmyadmin-3x-multiple-remote-code.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062719.html
• http://phpmyadmin.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0fbedaf5fd7a771d0885c6b7385d934fc90d0d7f
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45139
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45292
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45315
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8306
• http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-sa-2011-008/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2286
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17514/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:124
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/2

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