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CVE-2020-22452

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-26 · updated 2026-07-09
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL Injection vulnerability in function getTableCreationQuery in CreateAddField.php in phpMyAdmin 5.x before 5.2.0 via the tbl_storage_engine or tbl_collation parameters to tbl_create.php.

Affected products

• phpMyAdmin: from 5.0.0 before 5.2.0 — fixed in 5.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: phpMyAdmin 5.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/15898
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/16004
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/15898
• https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/16004

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