Cross-site request forgery in phpMyAdmin - CVE-2019-12922
Published: September 18, 2019 / Updated: June 17, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21174
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12922
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 attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as delete arbitrary server on in the Setup page.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12922
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.