CVE-2022-23808 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 5.1 before 5.1.2. An attacker can inject malicious code into aspects of the setup script, which can allow XSS or HTML injection.

Published: 2022-01-22

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 52.0% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-vcwc-6mr9-8m7c	Cross-site Scripting in phpmyadmin

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.52028.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://infosecwriteups.com/exploit-cve-2022-23808-85041c6e5b97
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-17
https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2022-2/

History

Mon, 05 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Phpmyadmin Phpmyadmin

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T16:25:09.948Z

Reserved: 2022-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-23808

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:51:46.011Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-01-22T02:15:07.197

Modified: 2025-05-05T17:17:58.507

Link: CVE-2022-23808

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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