CVE-2026-119563 (GCVE-0-2026-119563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-30 11:31 – Updated: 2026-10-30 11:31
VLAI
Title
phpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 Stored XSS via Designer Query History Table Name
Summary
phpMyAdmin through 5.2.3 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows database users with CREATE privilege to inject script via unescaped table names in DesignerHistory.display(). Attackers can create a table whose name contains HTML markup that executes in another user's session when they add a condition on it in Designer query mode.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 7155 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.2.3 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:phpmyadmin:phpmyadmin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2026-10-12 00:00
Credits
Abraxas Labs
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