Portable phpMyAdmin <= 1.5.0 - Authentication Bypass

2013-10-24 00:00

Anant Shrivastava (anantshri)

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginPortable phpMyAdmin

Affected Version<= 1.5.0

CVSS9.1Critical

CVECVE-2013-4462

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Vulnerability Overview

WordPress Portable phpMyAdmin Plugin version 1.5.0 and below has an authentication bypass vulnerability.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-287 (Improper Authentication) When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4462 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/04bfad0d-9c6d-41b6-8c59-516eceef9a36

CVSS Vector

9.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone

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