Portable Phpmyadmin: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Portable Phpmyadmin is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Portable Phpmyadmin
- Plugin slug
portable-phpmyadmin- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 27, 2020
This CVE was published Jan 27, 2020 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Portable Phpmyadmin to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
WordPress Portable phpMyAdmin Plugin has an authentication bypass vulnerability
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N