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CVE-2019-12616 — phpmyadmin

MEDIUMFix: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin@015c404

CVE-2019-12616 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin. 1 public exploit or proof-of-concept reference is indexed, so weaponization risk is real. A fix is available for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin — see the affected versions and patch details below.

phpMyAdmin CSRF Vulnerability

Also known asGHSA-mfr9-pcm3-6mwc
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Nov 2, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

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20.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Moderate Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs97th percentile — riskier than 97% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
8.42%27.6%46.7%65.8%55.1%20.2%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

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Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🐘phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadminall versions4.9.0composer require phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:^4.9.0

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
phpmyadminphpmyadmin
< 4.9.0
range
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

EDB-46982webappsphp

phpMyAdmin 4.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

by Riemann · Jun 11, 2019

Exploit-DB Source

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin to 4.9.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2019-12616 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim.
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CVE-2019-12616: phpmyadmin CSRF — Fixed in 4.9.0