CVE-2026-119428: medium-severity vulnerability in phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 SSRF via setup/validate.php After Setup Disabled
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.3%
phpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger outbound connections via setup/validate.php, which lacks the setup-disabled guard. Attackers can POST attacker-chosen host and port values reaching Validator::testDBConnection() to open MySQL-protocol connections and probe internal ports using returned error messages.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
phpMyAdmin · phpMyAdminRelated CVEs — phpMyAdmin
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2022-0813MEDIUMPhpMyAdmin exposure of sensitive informationEPSS 1.3%CVE-2025-24530MEDIUMCVE-2025-24530EPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-119429MEDIUMphpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 Two-Factor Authentication Removal via /config/setEPSS 0.4%CVE-2025-24529MEDIUMCVE-2025-24529EPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-119426HIGHphpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 CSRF Token Bypass via Non-AJAX POST to /sqlEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-119427LOWphpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 SQL Injection via Designer saveSettingEPSS 0.3%
References
https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/phpmyadmin-setup-validatehttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadminhttps://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/RELEASE_5_2_3/libraries/classes/Config/Validator.php#L241https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/RELEASE_5_2_3/setup/validate.php#L21-L35https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/126ac3ac5662ed3171ef3646636348fad3f8e952https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/510e442593af5d4702bbb46cdb45ad51f3a8a9d3https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/19156https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/phpmyadmin-through-5.2.3-ssrf-via-setup-validate-php-after-setup-disabled