CVE-2012-5469

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 23.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Portable phpMyAdmin plugin before 1.3.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain phpMyAdmin console access via a direct request to wp-content/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/wp-pma-mod.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+23)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-12/0092.html
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/changelog/
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-12/0092.html
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/changelog/

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