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phpMyAdmin Authenticated Remote Code Execution via preg_replace()

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Disclosed
2013-04-25
Created
2018-05-30

Description

This module exploits a PREG_REPLACE_EVAL vulnerability in phpMyAdmin's
replace_prefix_tbl within libraries/mult_submits.inc.php via db_settings.php
This affects versions 3.5.x PHP versions > 5.4.6 are not vulnerable.

Authors

Janek "waraxe" Vind
Ben Campbell eat_meatballs@hotmail.co.uk

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/phpmyadmin_preg_replace
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_preg_replace) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_preg_replace) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_preg_replace) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(phpmyadmin_preg_replace) > exploit
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