Portable phpMyAdmin <= 1.3.0 - Authentication Bypass

Improper Authentication

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE	CVE-2012-5469
CVSS	High (7.3)
Publicly Published	August 1, 2014
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Mark Stanislav

Description

The Portable phpMyAdmin plugin before 1.3.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain phpMyAdmin console access via a direct request to wp-content/plugins/portable-phpmyadmin/wp-pma-mod.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	portable-phpmyadmin (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 1.3.0
Patched Version	1.3.1

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