CVE-2015-6830

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-09-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

libraries/plugins/auth/AuthenticationCookie.class.php in phpMyAdmin 4.3.x before 4.3.13.2 and 4.4.x before 4.4.14.1 allows remote attackers to bypass a multiple-reCaptcha protection mechanism against brute-force credential guessing by providing a correct response to a single reCaptcha.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.3.5 (+25)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166294.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166307.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166531.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3382
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76674
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033546
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/785f4e2711848eb8945894199d5870253a88584e
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2015-4/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166294.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166307.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166531.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3382

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