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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-q7v2-w38r-pv7v)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433062

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.2.2 allow remote
 authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a Table Operations (1) TRUNCATE or (2) DROP
 link for a crafted table name, (3) the Add Trigger popup within a Triggers page that references crafted
 table names, (4) an invalid trigger-creation attempt for a crafted table name, (5) crafted data in a
 table, or (6) a crafted tooltip label name during GIS data visualization, a different issue than
 CVE-2012-4345. (CVE-2012-4579)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7v2-w38r-pv7v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433062

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4579

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4579

BID: 73624

cwe: CWE-79