CVE-2007-5386
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scripts/setup.php in phpMyAdmin 2.11.1, when accessed by a browser that does not URL-encode requests, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.3%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in scripts/setup.php in phpMyAdmin 2.11.1, when accessed by a browser that does not URL-encode requests, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.33% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 9 October 2007
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://osvdb.org/37678
- http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin/branches/MAINT_2_11_1/phpMyAdmin/ChangeLog?r1=10748&r2=10747&pathrev=10748
- http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin/trunk/?view=log
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27173Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27506
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27595
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1403
- http://www.digitrustgroup.com/advisories/TDG-advisory071009a
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:199
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482339/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26020
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3469
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333661
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37077
- https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1810629&group_id=23067&atid=377408
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00040.html
- http://osvdb.org/37678
- http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin/branches/MAINT_2_11_1/phpMyAdmin/ChangeLog?r1=10748&r2=10747&pathrev=10748
- http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin/trunk/?view=log
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27173Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27506
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27595
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1403
- http://www.digitrustgroup.com/advisories/TDG-advisory071009a
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:199
- http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482339/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26020
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3469
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.