CVE-2018-19970

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In phpMyAdmin before 4.8.4, an XSS vulnerability was found in the navigation tree, where an attacker can deliver a payload to a user through a crafted database/table name.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
phpMyAdmin: from 4.0.0 before 4.8.4 — fixed in 4.8.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: phpMyAdmin 4.8.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106181
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-16
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-8/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106181
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00003.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-16
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2018-8/

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