Critical
Adminer and AdminerEvo vulnerable to directory traversal and file upload
Type: advisorySources: OSV
The file upload plugin in Adminer and AdminerEvo allows an attacker to upload a file with a table name of “..” to the root of the Adminer directory. The attacker can effectively guess the name of the uploaded file and execute it. Adminer is no longer supported, but this issue was fixed in AdminerEvo version 4.8.3.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-45197
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 19:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Adminer and AdminerEvo vulnerable to directory traversal and file upload
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 21 Jun 2024, 14:28 UTC
The file upload plugin in Adminer and AdminerEvo allows an attacker to upload a file with a table name of “..” to the root of the Adminer directory. The attacker can effectively guess the name of the uploaded file and execute it. Adminer is no longer supported, but this issue was fixed in AdminerEvo version 4.8.3.
osv:CVE-2023-45197
Complete source record
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