CVE-2020-5504

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Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2025-04-16

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

In phpMyAdmin 4 before 4.9.4 and 5 before 5.0.1, SQL injection exists in the user accounts page. A malicious user could inject custom SQL in place of their own username when creating queries to this page. An attacker must have a valid MySQL account to access the server.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-52451 webapps php

CodeSecLab · 2025-12-03

phpMyAdmin 5.0.0 - SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4:4.9.4+dfsg1-1`
sid	Fixed	`4:4.9.4+dfsg1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4:4.9.4+dfsg1-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4:4.9.4+dfsg1-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Packagist	phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin	`>=4.0.0,<4.9.4`	`4.9.4`
Packagist	phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin	`>=5.0.0,<5.0.1`	`5.0.1`

References

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

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