CVE-2023-25727: Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in drag-and-drop upload of phpMyAdmin

medium Affects phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin. Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2023-02-13; advisory modified 2025-03-21.

Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in drag-and-drop upload of phpMyAdmin

Package: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin Composer
Affected versions: >=4.3.0 and <4.9.11 or >=5.0 and <5.2.1
Fixed in: 4.9.11, 5.2.1
Severity: medium CVSS 5.4
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (67.1th percentile)
Published: 2023-02-13
Source: osv.dev

References

CWE-79

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