SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-mfr9-pcm3-6mwc)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433657

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin before 4.9.0. A vulnerability was found that allows an attacker to
trigger a CSRF attack against a phpMyAdmin user. The attacker can trick the user, for instance through a
broken <img> tag pointing at the victim's phpMyAdmin database, and the attacker can potentially deliver a
payload (such as a specific INSERT or DELETE statement) to the victim. (CVE-2019-12616)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfr9-pcm3-6mwc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433657

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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12616

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12616

BID: 108619

cwe: CWE-352