⚠ Exploited in the wild
Exploitation observed in the wild. Not yet on CISA KEV.

CVE-2018-12613Improper Authentication in Phpmyadmin

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
94.3%
top 0.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 21
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 4.8.x before 4.8.2, in which an attacker can include (view and potentially execute) files on the server. The vulnerability comes from a portion of code where pages are redirected and loaded within phpMyAdmin, and an improper test for whitelisted pages. An attacker must be authenticated, except in the "$cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] = true" case (where an attacker can specify any host he/she is already in control of, and execute arbitrary code on phpMyAdmin) an

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

NVDphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin4.8.04.8.2
Packagistphpmyadmin/phpmyadmin4.84.8.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
phpMyAdmin Improper Authentication2022-05-13
OSV
phpMyAdmin Improper Authentication2022-05-13
VulnCheck
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin Improper Authentication2018

💥Exploits & PoCs

6
Exploit-DB
phpMyAdmin 4.8.1 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)2021-10-25
Exploit-DB
phpMyAdmin - (Authenticated) Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)2018-07-13
Exploit-DB
phpMyAdmin 4.8.1 - (Authenticated) Local File Inclusion (2)2018-06-22
Exploit-DB
phpMyAdmin 4.8.1 - (Authenticated) Local File Inclusion (1)2018-06-21
Metasploit
phpMyAdmin Authenticated Remote Code Execution

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2018-12613: phpmyadmin - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 4.8.x before 4.8.2, in which an attacker c...2018

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Greynoiseio
NoiseLetter October 2025

📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
ATTACK2VEC: Leveraging Temporal Word Embeddings to Understand the Evolution of Cyberattacks2019-05-29

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19968 CVE-2018-19969 CVE-2018-19970 CVE-2018-12613 phpMyAdmin: Multiple security issues fixed in 4.8.4 [epel-all]2018-12-13
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-19968 CVE-2018-19969 CVE-2018-19970 CVE-2018-12613 phpMyAdmin: Multiple security issues fixed in 4.8.42018-12-13