phpmyadmin — security advisory
In phpMyAdmin 4.x before 4.9.5 and 5.x before 5.0.2, a SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered where certain parameters are not properly escaped when generating certain queries for search actions in libraries/classes/Controllers/Table/TableSearchController.php. An attacker can generate a crafted database or table name. The attack can be performed if a user attempts certain search operations on the malicious database or table.
- Products
- phpmyadmin
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10802
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In phpMyAdmin 4.x before 4.9.5 and 5.x before 5.0.2, a SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered where certain parameters are not properly escaped when generating certain queries for search actions in libraries/classes/Controllers/Table/TableSearchController.php. An attacker can generate a crafted database or table name. The attack can be performed if a user attempts certain search operations on the malicious database or table.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10802
phpmyadmin
Fixed versions: 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Fixed versions: 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-1
phpmyadmin
Fixed versions: 4:4.9.5+dfsg1-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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