High
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
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10802
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:04 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:CVE-2020-10802
Complete source record
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