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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-p6h7-29r2-g88f)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433502

Description

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

 - setup/lib/ConfigGenerator.class.php in phpMyAdmin 3.x before 3.3.10.2 and 3.4.x before 3.4.3.1 does not
 properly restrict the presence of comment closing delimiters, which allows remote attackers to conduct
 static code injection attacks by leveraging the ability to modify the SESSION superglobal array.
 (CVE-2011-2506)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6h7-29r2-g88f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433502

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.36

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2506

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2011

Exploitable With

Elliot (Phpmyadmin 3.x RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2506

BID: 48563

cwe: CWE-94