Vulnerability · Published Jan 22, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-23808
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in the phpmyadmin package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 7.9% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)7.9%top 5.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling2Nuclei, Public PoC
Official description
An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin 5.1 before 5.1.2. An attacker can inject malicious code into aspects of the setup script, which can allow XSS or HTML injection.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.20 | phpmyadmin | 5.1.2-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | phpmyadmin | 5.1.2-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | phpmyadmin | 5.1.2-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | phpmyadmin | 5.1.2-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | phpmyadmin | 5.1.2-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Debian:12 | phpmyadmin | 4:5.1.3+dfsg1-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Debian:13 | phpmyadmin | 4:5.1.3+dfsg1-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Debian:14 | phpmyadmin | 4:5.1.3+dfsg1-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Packagist | phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin | 5.1.2 | GHSA-vcwc-6mr9-8m7c |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | phpmyadmin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | phpmyadmin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | phpmyadmin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | phpmyadmin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23808 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | phpmyadmin | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23808 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N