Rapid7

vulnerability

phpMyAdmin: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CVE-2018-12581)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 21, 2018
Added
Oct 16, 2019
Modified
May 21, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in js/designer/move.js in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.2. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been found where an attacker can use a crafted database name to trigger an XSS attack when that database is referenced from the Designer feature.

Solution

phpmyadmin-upgrade-latest
Title
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