⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-09-29. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-10-20. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2021-21311Server-Side Request Forgery in Adminer

Severity
7.2HIGHNVD
OSV6.1
EPSS
94.2%
top 0.08%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-09-29
Due 2025-10-20
Exploit
PoC available
Public exploit / PoC exists
Timeline
PublishedFeb 11
KEV addedSep 29
KEV dueOct 20
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Adminer is an open-source database management in a single PHP file. In adminer from version 4.0.0 and before 4.7.9 there is a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Users of Adminer versions bundling all drivers (e.g. `adminer.php`) are affected. This is fixed in version 4.7.9.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages6 packages

Packagistvrana/adminer< 4.7.9
debiandebian/adminer< adminer 4.7.9-1 (bookworm)
NVDadminer/adminer4.0.04.7.9
Debianadminer/adminer< 4.7.9-1+3
Ubuntuadminer/adminer< 4.2.1-1ubuntu1+esm1+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
adminer vulnerabilities2022-06-03
OSV
SSRF in adminer2021-02-11
GHSA
SSRF in adminer2021-02-11
OSV
CVE-2021-21311: Adminer is an open-source database management in a single PHP file2021-02-11
VulnCheck
Adminer Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability2021

💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Nuclei
Adminer <4.7.9 - Server-Side Request Forgery

📋Vendor Advisories

3
CISA
Adminer Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability2025-09-29
Ubuntu
Adminer vulnerabilities2022-06-03
Debian
CVE-2021-21311: adminer - Adminer is an open-source database management in a single PHP file. In adminer f...2021

🕵️Threat Intelligence

3
Tenable
Identifying Server Side Request Forgery: How Tenable.io Web Application Scanning Can Help2021-11-18
Recorded Future
September 2025 CVE Landscape
Recorded Future
September 2025 CVE Landscape

📄Research Papers

2
CTF
medium / README
CTF
AdmirerToo / README