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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-12616

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim.

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CVE-2019-12616

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Jun 2019, 05:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a broken tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim.

osv:CVE-2019-12616
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:32.434142685Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00009.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/II4HC4QO6WUL2IRSQKCB66UBJOLLI5OV/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZKJMYVXEDXGEGRO42T6H6VOEZJ65QPQ7/",
        "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/",
        "https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/PMASA-2019-4/"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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