CVE-2018-15605

Publication date 24 August 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.8.3. A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been found where an attacker can use a crafted file to manipulate an authenticated user who loads that file through the import feature.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
phpmyadmin	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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Introduced by: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/9404287ac09415b627b6fa68c7d04a13f7ef41e2 Fixed by: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/9404287ac09415b627b6fa68c7d04a13f7ef41e2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N