{"id":"CVE-2012-5469","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-5469","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T07:55:56.950Z","title":"The Portable phpMyAdmin plugin before 1.3.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain phpMyAdmin console access via a direct request to wp-content/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/wp-pma-mod.","description":"The Portable phpMyAdmin plugin before 1.3.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain phpMyAdmin console access via a direct request to wp-content/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/wp-pma-mod.","published":"2012-12-20T12:02:19.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:46:50.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin"],"epss":{"score":0.23745,"percentile":0.97827,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2012-12-13","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":23356,"kind":"exploit","title":"WordPress Plugin Portable phpMyAdmin - Authentication Bypass","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23356","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/23356.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/23356.txt","published":"2012-12-13","added":"2012-12-13","updated":"2012-12-14","author":"Mark Stanislav","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2012-5469","OSVDB-88391"],"tags":"WordPress Plugin","aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 23.7%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-12/0092.html","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/changelog/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-12/0092.html","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/changelog/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5469","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}