CVE-2010-4480

medium

Published 2010-12-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

error.php in PhpMyAdmin 3.3.8.1, and other versions before 3.4.0-beta1, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted BBcode tag containing "@" characters, as demonstrated using "[a@url@page]".

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-15699 webapps php verified

emgent white_sheep & scox · 2010-12-06

phpMyAdmin - Client-Side Code Injection / Redirect Link Falsification

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4:3.3.7-3`
sid	Fixed	`4:3.3.7-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`4:3.3.7-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`4:3.3.7-3`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.3.8.1`
phpmyadmin	phpmyadmin	`3.3.9.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.