Cross-site request forgery in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2018-10188
Published: April 25, 2018 / Updated: June 17, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12284
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10188
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: phpMyAdmin
Affected software:
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to absence of validation of the request origin when processing HTTP requests. A remote attacker can perform CSRF attack and execute arbitrary SQL commands in MySQL database with privileges of the current user.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-10188
Update to version 4.8.0-1.